Manners v. Morosco’s Empirical Analysis
258 F. 557 · 1919
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1974
1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Kalem Co. v. Harper Bros. · Harper Bros. v. Klaw · Photo-Drama Motion Picture Co. v. Social Uplift Film Corp. · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Pennsylvania Co. · Harper & Bros. v. Kalem 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to produce the play not later than January first, 1913, and to continue the said play for at least seventy-five performances during the season of 1913-1914 and for each theatrical season thereafter for a period of five years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Manners v. Morosco“then all rights of the said party of the second part [the defendant] shall cease and determine and shall immediately revert to the said party of the first part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Manners v. Morosco“the sole and exclusive license and liberty to produce, perform and represent the said play in the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.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.