Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
293 F.3d 791 · 2002
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 102 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 105 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 106 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 107 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 201 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 504 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1367
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. · Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises · Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios Inc
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[l]awmaking bodies in this country enact rules and regulations only with the consent of the governed. The very process of lawmaking demands and incorporates contributions by 'the people,' in an infinite variety of individual and organizational capacities... In performing their function, the lawmakers represent the public will, and the public are the final 'authors' of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even when a governmental body consciously decides to enact proposed model building codes, it does so based on various legislative considerations, the sum of which produce its version of 'the law.' In performing their function, the lawmakers represent the public will, and the public are the final 'authors' of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“citizens are the authors of the law, and therefore its owners, regardless of who actually drafts the provisions, because the law derives its authority from the consent of the public, expressed through the democratic process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.