Fendler v. Morosco’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014 · most notably Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises (1985), Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp. (1930)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
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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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There may be literary property in a particular combination of ideas [and this must presuppose an expression thereof] or in the form in which ideas are embodied. There can be none in the ideas.”
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.