Public Affairs Associates, Inc. v. Rickover’s Empirical Analysis
284 F.2d 262 · 1960
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2005 · most notably Public Affairs Associates, Inc. v. Rickover (1962), 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)
17 federal appellate · 6 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Mazer v. Stein · Callaghan v. Myers · White-Smith Music Publishing Company v. Apollo Company · Henry Wheaton v. Richard Peters · Holmes v. Hurst
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Since the distribution was not limited in any way to a particular group, no question exists in this case as to the extent of any limitation so as to avoid ‘publication’ in the copyright sense. Anyone was welcome to a copy. “Nor do we have any problem as to limited use of the addresses by the press for fair comment. The press was free to use the speeches in whole or in part for their news value. But such ephemeral use is far different from the unlimited distribution to anyone who was interested which is manifested by the agreed statement ‘of facts. It is the complete absence of limitation on the use of the printed distributions by anyone at any time which destroyed the common Jaw rights of the author.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Speeches of men in the forefront of public life are unique among literary products. Not only are they often works of considerable literary merit, but they may also be ‘news’ of the first importance. As ‘news’ they deserve the widest unfettered contemporaneous dissemination. Where, as here, an author seeks to advance this end by making copies of his speeches available to the press and other interested persons, he is serving the public’s interest as well as his own. But insofar as they have a commercial value as literary works after their immediate news importance has passed, they belong appropriately to their creator. The public interest in the news value of the author’s work may cut across or postpone his rights; but that is not to say that it extinguishes them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'In distributing the speeches, Admiral Rickover mailed some [copies] to individuals who had requested copies or who[m] Admiral Rickover believed would be interested in the subject. Some were sent by Admiral Rickover, approximately 50 in each case, to the sponsor of the speech to be made available to the press and others at the place where the speech was to be delivered.'”
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.