Stevenson v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
238 F. 432 · 1917
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1976
3 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It will never do to hold that, because an incident here or there is used in the later production which was used . . . in the former copyrighted book or play, therefore the later production infringes the copyright of the former.”
1 later decision 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.