233 Mo. App. 397 - Kurfiss v. Cowherd’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1976 · most notably Edgar H. Wood Associates, Inc. v. Skene (1964), 174 Cal. App. 2d 744 - Smith v. Paul (1959)
4 federal appellate · 19 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 Callaghan v. Myers · American Tobacco Company v. Emil Werckmeister · 9 E.H. Smith 241 - Jewelers' Mercantile Agency v. Jewelers' Weekly Publishing Co. · Werckmeister v. American Lithographic Co. · Cammann v. Edwards
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one which communicates a knowledge of its contents under conditions expressly or impliedly precluding its dedication to the public.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It has been many times held that the exhibition of a work of art in an art gallery, where there are restrictions as to who shall come and see it, and where there are laws, rules, and well known and established customs and usages prohibiting copying of the things displayed, it will not be considered as a publication. [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the filing of the original [of an intellectual product] for copyright purposes is a publication such as forever ends the right of the creator to claim a common law copyright, even though he fails to obtain a statutory copyright.”
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.