McClintic v. Sheldon’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1990
4 federal appellate ·
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 Independent Wireless Telegraph Co. v. Radio Corp. · Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corp. · Kirke La Shelle Co. v. Paul Armstrong Co. · Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corp. · L. C. Page & Co. v. Fox Film Corp.
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.
“It is not disputed that if the license to make a motion picture of the play had been sold to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp., the plaintiff would have received 50% of the sales price. Where, as here, the rights were not purchased but were improperly appropriated and defendants have recovered for that conversion, plaintiff is not to be deprived of his interest in the recovery. By paying over the apportioned profits from the motion picture which was adjudged to be an infringement upon the copyright of the play ..., the Metro-Goldwyn company merely consummated an involuntary sale of a license to produce a motion picture of the play. Within the clear language of his agreement with defendants, plaintiff was a half owner of such fund.”
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.