Alfred Bell & Co. v. Catalda Fine Arts, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
191 F.2d 99 · 1951
Citation profile
145 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 291 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015 · most notably Mazer v. Stein (1954), Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions, Inc. And Sid & Marty Krofft Productions, Inc. v. McDonald Corporation and Needham, Harper & Steers, Inc., Defendants- Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions, Inc. And Sid & Marty Krofft Productions, Inc. v. McDonald Corporation and Needham, Harper & Steers, Inc., Defendants (1977)
145 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on Kiefer-Stewart Co. v. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. · United States v. Aluminum Co. of America · Automatic Radio Manufacturing Co. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Bruce's Juices, Inc. v. American Can Co. · Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.
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 291 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means little more than a prohibition of actual copying.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'author' is entitled to a copyright if he independently contrived a work completely identical with what went before.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o promote the ... useful Arts, by securing for limited times to Authors ... the exclusive Right to their ... Writings.”
3 later decisions 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.