316 F. Supp. 1277 - Uhlaender v. Henricksen’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 813 - Lugosi v. Universal Pictures (1979), Baltimore Orioles, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Players Ass'n (1986)
11 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 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 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Civil Aeronautics Board v. Summerfield · Louis Kamm, Inc. v. Flink · Haelan Laboratories, Inc. v. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. · Ettore v. Philco Television Broadcasting Corp. · 97 N.J. Super. 327 - Canessa v. Kislak, 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Although the publication of biographical data of a well-known figure does not per se constitute an invasion of privacy, the use of that same data for the purpose of capitalizing upon the name by using it in connection with a commercial project other than the dissemination of news or articles or biographies does.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] celebrity must be considered to have invested his years of practice and competition in a public personality which eventually may reach marketable status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`misappropriation and use for commercial profit of the names of professional major league baseball players without the payment of royalties.'”
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.