Estate of Martin Luther King Jr Inc v. Cbs Inc’s Empirical Analysis
194 F.3d 1211 · 1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2024
1 federal appellate ·
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 County of Los Angeles v. Davis · Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe · Public Affairs Associates, Inc. v. Rickover · S. S. W., Inc. v. Air Transport Ass'n of America
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication. A public performance or display of a work does not of itself constitute publication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.