Buck v. Jewell-La Salle Realty Co’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

70 federal appellate · 46 district · 4 state decisions

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 258 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Any person entitled thereto, upon complying with the provisions of this title, shall have the exclusive right: * * * “(e) To perform the copyrighted work publicly for profit if it be a musical composition and for the purpose of public-performance for profit.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United Artists Television, Inc. v. Fortnightly Corporation · 19 F. Supp. 1 - Society of European Stage Authors & Composers, Inc. v. New York Hotel Statler Co.

2. ““But nothing in the act circumscribes the meaning to be attributed to the term ‘performance,’ or prevents a single rendition of a copyrighted selection from resulting in more than one public performance for profit. While this may not have been possible before the development of radio broadcasting, the novelty of the means used does not lessen the duty of the courts to give full protection to the monopoly of public performance for profit which Congress has secured to the composer. * * * No reason is suggested why there may not be more than one liability.” 283 U.S. at 198 , 51 S.Ct. at 411 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United Artists Television, Inc. v. Fortnightly Corporation · Davis v. EI DuPont De Nemours & Company

3. ““Do the acts of a hotel proprietor, in making available to his guests, through the instrumentality of a radio receiving set and loud speakers installed in his hotel and under his control and for the entertainment of his guests, the hearing of a copyrighted musical composition, which has been broadcast from a radio transmitting station, constitute a performance of such composition within the meaning of 17 U.S.C. § 1 (e) [ 17 U.S.C.A. § 1 (e)]?” Buck v. Jewell-La Salle Realty Co., 1931, 283 U.S. 191 , 51 S.Ct. 410 , 75 L.Ed. 971 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United Artists Television, Inc. v. Fortnightly Corporation · 162 F. Supp. 129 - Harms, Inc. v. Sansom House Enterprises, Inc.