Bruce v. Weekly World News, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.3d 25 · 2002
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Bouchat v. Baltimore Ravens Football Club, Inc. (2003), John G. Danielson, Inc. v. Winchester-Conant Properties, Inc. (2003)
9 federal appellate · 11 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. § 504 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 507 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corp. · Mills Music, Inc. v. Snyder · Data General Corporation v. Grumman Systems Support Corporation · Hamil America, Inc. v. GFI · Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. v. American Broadcasting Companies, 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Bruce almost surely would not have been able to negotiate with World News for anything other than a single, lump-sum, up-front licensing fee.”
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.