Fox Film Corporation v. Doyal’s Empirical Analysis
286 U.S. 123 · 1932
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 29 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 385 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably eBay Inc. v. MERCEXCHANGE, LL (2006), National League of Cities v. Usery (1976)
100 federal appellate · 29 district · 62 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Continental Paper Bag Company v. Eastern Paper Bag Company · Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co. · Van Brocklin v. Anderson · Indian Motocycle Co. v. United States
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 385 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may refrain from vending or licensing [its product] and content [itself] with simply exercising the right to exclude others from using [its] property.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. (Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 8)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As this Court has repeatedly said, the Congress did not sanction an existing right but created a new one”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eldred v. Ashcroft
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.