Wheeler v. Dell Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
300 F.2d 372 · 1962
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 61 Ill. 2d 129 - Tom Olesker's Exciting World of Fashion, Inc. v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. (1975), United States v. Pierce (2002)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Haas v. Palace Hotel Co. · Gregoire v. G. P. Putnam's Sons · Winrod v. Time, 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“case of Gregoire v. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 298 N.Y. 119 , 81 N.E.2d 45 (1948) is not controlling in Dell's favor. There, suit was based on a single copy of a book sold a year after first publication. A divided court dismissed the suit. The single book was part of the first printing and is well within the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any reasonable person who read the book and was in a position to identify [Plaintiff] with [the Erin Bates character] would more likely conclude that the author created the latter in an ugly way so that none would identify her with”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Winrod v. Time, Inc., 334 Ill. App. 59 , 78 N.E.2d 708 (1948). The”
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.