Leonard Brown v. Roy C. Ames’s Empirical Analysis
201 F.3d 654 · 2000
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Doe v. Myspace, Inc. (2008), In the Matter Of: Liljeberg Enterprises, Inc. (2002)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Hines v. Davidowitz · Silkwood v. Corporation · Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp. · Bonito Boats, Inc. v. Thunder Craft Boats, Inc. · Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the tort of misappropriation of a name or likeness protects a person's persona . A persona does not fall within the subject matter of copyright.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) On or after January 1, 1978, all legal or equitable rights that are equivalent to any of the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright as specified by section 106 in works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression and come within the subject matter of copyright as specified by sections 102 and 103, whether created before or after that date and whether published or unpublished, are governed exclusively by this title.... (b) Nothing in this title annuls or limits any rights or remedies under the common law or statutes of any State with respect to— (1) subject matter that does not come within the subject matter of copyright as specified by sections 102 and 103, including works of authorship not fixed in any tangible medium of expression;....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“party must object to a jury charge before the jury begins its deliberations in order to preserve its right to appeal that jury charge, unless the error is so fundamental as to be a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Poullard v. Turner
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.