Klein v. Beach’s Empirical Analysis
232 F. 240 · 1916
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1961
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Kalem Co. v. Harper Bros. · Harper Bros. v. Klaw · Harper & Bros. v. Kalem Co. · Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co. v. National Enameling & Stamping Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here both Beach and Klein became the owners of Klein's drama, and each could then do with it what he pleased, with the duty of accounting over. Beach could license Klein's dramatic version for the screen and Klein could do the same thing; and, of course, they each could license others to produce the Klein play on the stage. But in all these instances one would be obliged to account to the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The sole and exclusive right to dramatize the said book for presentation on the stage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Klein v. Beach
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.