Harper v. Shoppell’s Empirical Analysis
26 F. 519 · 1886
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1973
2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Kuyper v. Witteman · Averill v. Williams
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Till! plaintiffs might have copyrighted the cut as an independent subject of copyright. Tf they had done this, a reproduction of the copyrighted tiling would'lmvo been piracy, however innocent the defendants might have been of intentional wrong.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fishel v. Lueckel
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.