American Code Co. v. Bensinger’s Empirical Analysis
282 F. 829 · 1922
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Stewart v. Abend (1990), Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions, Inc. And Sid & Marty Krofft Productions, Inc. v. McDonald Corporation and Needham, Harper & Steers, Inc., Defendants- Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions, Inc. And Sid & Marty Krofft Productions, Inc. v. McDonald Corporation and Needham, Harper & Steers, Inc., Defendants (1977)
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 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 Callaghan v. Myers · Holmes v. Hurst · Richard Ferris v. Charles Frohman · Belford Clarke Co v. Scribner · Caliga v. Inter Ocean Newspaper 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The copyright laws of one country have no extraterritorial operation, unless otherwise provided.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Subafilms, Ltd. The Hearst Corp., Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees v. Mgm-Pathe Communications Co., Fka Mgm/ua Communications Co. And as United Artists Corporation Mgm/ua Home Video, Inc. Warner Home Video, Inc. Warner Bros. Inc., Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellants. Subafilms, Ltd. The Hearst Corp. v. Mgm-Pathe Communications Co., Fka Mgm/ua Communications Co. And as United Artists Corporation Mgm/ua Home Video, Inc. Warner Home Video, Inc. Warner Bros. Inc. United Artists Corporation · Subafilms Ltd
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.