21 F. Supp. 2d 1109 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2016
4 federal appellate · 2 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. § 410 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 502 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Stewart v. Abend · Sierra On-Line, Inc. v. Phoenix Software, Inc. · 45 Cal. App. 4th 1093 - State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Superior Court · Apple Computer, Inc. v. Formula International Inc. · Entertainment Research Group, Inc. v. Genesis Creative Group, Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Designed for Windows95/NT " logo only if they exclusively used Microsoft's virtual machine. The district court agreed that several of Microsoft's Java distributing and advertising practices violated California law. It enjoined Microsoft from "[c]onditioning any licence to any Microsoft product on exclusive use or distribution of Microsoft's Java virtual machine”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Microsoft's argument that . . . Sun does not enjoy a presumption of irreparable harm merely rehashes its argument, which the court has rejected, that Sun's claims arise out of breach of contract rather than copyright infringement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ntering into any agreement, condition or arrangement with any third party that requires such third party to exclusively use Microsoft's interfaces to its runtime interpreter when invoking native code.”
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.