United Artists Corporation v. Masterpiece Productions, Inc., and Robert S. Benjamin, Arthur B. Krim, Seymour M. Peyser’s Empirical Analysis
221 F.2d 213 · 1955
Citation profile
90 federal appellate · 14 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2015 · most notably Moor v. County of Alameda (1973), Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. MacKey (1956)
90 federal appellate · 14 district · 10 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 Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange · United States v. Memphis Cotton Oil Co. · United States v. Bell Aircraft Corp. · Lesnik v. Public Industrials Corp.
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it arises out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter of the opposing party's claim.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In practice this criterion has been broadly interpreted to require not an absolute identity of factual backgrounds for the two claims, but only a logical relationship between them.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Transaction' is a word of flexible meaning. It may comprehend a series of many occurrences, depending not so much upon the immediateness of their connection as upon their logical relationship.”
3 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.