Fred Fisher, Inc. v. Dillingham’s Empirical Analysis
298 F. 145 · 1924
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Mazer v. Stein (1954), Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp. (1930)
35 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 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.
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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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(T)he law imposes no prohibition upon those who, without copying, independently arrive at the precise combination of words or notes which have been copyrighted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Everything registers somewhere in our memories, and no one can tell what may evoke it . . . . Once it appears that another has in fact used the copyright as the source of this production, he has invaded the author's rights. It is no excuse that in so doing his memory has played him a trick.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If A produces identically the same work as B, by independent thought, in good faith, without hearing, or seeing, B's work, both A and B would be entitled to individual copyrights in their individual works.”
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.