Maurel v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
220 F. 195 · 1915
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co (1938), Philip Cochetti v. John Desmond, Walter M. Phillips, Jr. And Robert P. Kane (1978)
12 federal appellate · 1 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 Barry v. Edmunds · Wetmore v. Rymer · King v. . Barnes · Put-in-Bay Waterworks v. Ryan · Carter v. Bailey
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he plaintiffs rights arise from a constructive trust, created and cognizable only by a court of equity.... Her suit, so far as concerns the statutory copyrights, is clearly on the equity side of the court, because at law she could get no declaration of those rights, nor, indeed, could a court of law look at any but legal interests in the copyrights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“agreed to a joint authorship in the piece, and that they accepted whatever the law implied as to the rights and obligations which arose from such an undertaking.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Childress v. Taylor
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.