Olan Mills, Inc. v. Linn Photo Co.’s Empirical Analysis
23 F.3d 1345 · 1994
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Data General Corporation v. Grumman Systems Support Corporation (1994), Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. (2007)
15 federal appellate · 11 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. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 106 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 408 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 502 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 504 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios Inc · McGuire v. United States · Cable/Home Communication Corp. v. Network Productions, Inc. · Pacific and Southern Company Inc Wxia-Tv v. Duncan Tv · Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Sony Corp. of America
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[R]egistration is not a condition of copyright protection”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The investigator in this case merely approached Linn Photo in a conventional manner and offered Linn Photo an opportunity to infringe upon four clearly marked copyrights. Olan Mills did not authorize the investigator to validate Linn Photo’s unlawful conduct. Indeed, the investigator’s assignment was part of Olan Mills’ attempt to stop Linn Photo’s infringement. Accordingly, the copies made by Linn Photo at the request of the investigator were copyright violations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he power to grant injunctive relief is not limited to registered copyrights, or even to those copyrights which give rise to an infringement action.”
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.