Stein v. Mazer’s Empirical Analysis
204 F.2d 472 · 1953
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2009
14 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 171
Relies on Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. South Texas Lumber Co · Morton Salt Co. v. G. S. Suppiger Co. · F. W. Woolworth Co. v. Contemporary Arts, Inc. · Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. · Merchants Nat Bank of Boston v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since a copyright is intended to protect authorship, the essence of copyright protection is the protection of originality rather than novelty or invention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wihtol v. Wells““Any person who has invented any new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture, * * * may * * * obtain a patent therefor. * * * ” 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rosenthal v. Stein“infringement of six copyrights for small three-dimensional statuettes of male and female dancing figures made of semi-vitreous china.”
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.