Self-Realization Fellowship Church v. Ananda Church of Self-Realization’s Empirical Analysis
206 F.3d 1322 · 2000
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Kaypro Arrow Electronics Inc v. Howard Justus Kaypro Arrow Electronics Inc Schweber Electronics Inc (2000), Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Sfm Llc v. Entertainment Distributing & Sfm Llc (2005)
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Stewart v. Abend · Self-Realization Fellowship Church v. Ananda Church of Self-Realization · Abend v. MCA, Inc. · Barthelemy v. Air Lines Pilots Ass'n
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 31 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 in 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has summarized the work for hire doctrine as follows: When one person engages another, whether as employee or as an independent contractor, to produce a work of an artistic nature, in the absence of an express contractual reservation of the copyright in the artist, the presumption arises that the mutual intent of the parties is that the title to the copyright shall be in the person at whose instance and expense the work [was] done”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because all of the copied works were created before 1978, the Copyright Act of 1909 governs the validity of the initial copyrights.”). ■ Here, the photographs were first distributed in 1956 and 1957. ’ ; • 5 . While none of the photographs includes a copyright notice in Milton Greene's name, copyright language on' the back of one of, the photographs appears to reference”
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.