Maurel v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
271 F. 211 · 1921
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Cohan v. Commissioner (1930), Davis v. Blige (2007)
16 federal appellate · 3 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 Jackson v. Ludeling · Lockhart v. Leeds · Fairbanks v. . Sargent · Dam v. Kirk La Shelle Co. · Maurel v. Smith
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rights of property which the [co-owner] had were transferable by sale and delivery, and there is no distinction, independent of statute, between [copyrighted property] and property of any other description. The right to sell and transfer personal property is an inseparable incident of the property. An author or proprietor of a literary work or manuscript [or other work protected by the Copyright Act] possesses such a right of sale as fully and to the same extent as does the owner of any other piece of personal property. It is an incident of ownership.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Blige
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.