Time Incorporated v. Bernard Geis Associates’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises (1985), 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)
53 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1338 · 28 U.S.C. § 1498 · 35 U.S.C. § 154
Relies on Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co. · International News Service v. Associated Press · Compco Corp. v. Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. · Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. · Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include— (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he endless variety of situations and combinations of circumstances that can arise in particular cases precludes the formulation of exact rules in the statute”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“public interest in having the fullest information available on the murder of President Kennedy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Greenberg v. National Geographic Soc. · 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
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.