Funkhouser v. Loew's, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
208 F.2d 185 · 1953
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2018
3 federal appellate · 4 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 Universal Pictures Co. v. Harold Lloyd Corp. · Harold Lloyd Corp. v. Witwer · Chamberlin v. Uris Sales Corp. · Ansehl v. Puritan Pharmaceutical Co. · Dorsey v. Old Surety Life Ins.
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.
“Ideas as such are not subject to copyright. . . . Nor is the right to the use of certain words protected by copyright. A copyright secures the right to that arrangement of words which the author has selected to express his ideas.”
2 later decisions 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.