Wihtol v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
231 F.2d 550 · 1956
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Baltimore Orioles, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Players Ass'n (1986), Shaw
30 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Gay v. Parpart · Baker v. Selden · Alfred Bell & Co. v. Catalda Fine Arts, Inc. · Chicago Record-Herald Co. v. Tribune Ass'n
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the title of a copyrighted work should be taken into account when the same title is applied to a work [allegedly] copied from it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Accordingly, the Constitution, as so interpreted, recognizes that the standards for patents and copyrights are basically different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.