Markham v. A. E. Borden Co.’s Empirical Analysis
206 F.2d 199 · 1953
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2000 · most notably Lin-brook Builders Hardware v. Gertler (1965), Williams & Wilkins Co. v. United States (1973)
9 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on F. W. Woolworth Co. v. Contemporary Arts, Inc. · Douglas v. Cunningham · Mathews Conveyer Co. v. Palmer-Bee Co. · King Features Syndicate v. Fleischer · Toksvig v. Bruce Pub. 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The copyright provided by this title shall protect all the copyrightable component parts of the work copyrighted, and all matter therein which copyright is already subsisting, but without extending the duration or scope of such copyright. The copyright upon composite works or periodicals shall give to the proprietor thereof all the rights in respect thereto which he would have if each part were individually copyrighted under this title.””
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.