Mifflin v. R. H. White Co.’s Empirical Analysis
190 U.S. 260 · 1903
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 21 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1995 · most notably Peter Pan Fabrics, Inc. v. Martin Weiner Corp. (1960), American Tobacco Company v. Emil Werckmeister (1907)
57 federal appellate · 21 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Holmes v. Hurst · Belford Clarke Co v. Scribner · Thompson v. Hubbard · Canal Bank v. Hudson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" * * * It is incorrect to say that any form of notice is good which calls attention to the person of whom inquiry can be made and information obtained, since, the right being purely statutory, the public may justly demand that the person claiming a monopoly of publication shall pursue, m substance, at least, the statutory method of securing it. * * * In determining whether a notice of copyright is misleading, we are not bound to look beyond the face of the notice, and inquire whether, under the facts of the particular case, it is reasonable to suppose an intelligent person could actually have been misled.” (Italics supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Construing these statutes together, it would seem that the word ‘proprietor,’ in the fourth section, must practically have the same meaning as ‘legal assigns’ in the first section, and was designed to give to the legal assignee of any author or authors the right to take out the copyright in his own name.” Mifflin v. R. H. White Co., 190 U. S. 260 , 262, 23 Sup. Ct. 769 , 770 ( 47 L. Ed. 1040 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““No person shall he entitled to the benefit of this act, unless he shall, before publication, deposit a printed copy of the title of such book * * * in the clerk’s office of the District Court of the district where the author or proprietor shall reside.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.