Klein v. Beach’s Empirical Analysis
239 F. 108 · 1917
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1961
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 · Klein v. Beach
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The turning point in this case, is the scope of the grant, whether by its terms it conferred upon Klein'dramatic rights in the larger sense including presentation, not only by living actors, but also by motion pictures, or whether it was'limited to the ‘stage’ proper."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Manners v. Morosco“dramatic, rights include motion picture rights,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Manners v. Morosco
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.