Mackie v. Rieser’s Empirical Analysis
296 F.3d 909 · 2002
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Bouchat v. Baltimore Ravens Football Club, Inc. (2003), Cafasso v. General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (2011)
21 federal appellate · 4 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. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 412 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 504 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. v. California State Council of Carpenters · 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 · Data General Corporation v. Grumman Systems Support Corporation · Taylor v. Meirick · National Cable & Telecommunications Ass'n v. Gulf Power Co.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“copyright owner is entitled to recover the actual damages suffered by him or her as a result of the infringement.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“essentially an objective rather than a subjective measure of damages”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because Mackie [had] failed to adduce any non-speculative evidence that would even suggest a link between the infringement and the Symphony's supposedly enhanced revenues,”
2 later decisions 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.