Satava v. Lowry’s Empirical Analysis
323 F.3d 805 · 2003
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Warsoldier v. Woodford (2005), L.A. Printex Industries, Inc. v. Aeropostale, Inc. (2012)
25 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. · TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSIC CORP. Et Al. v. AIKEN · Gay v. Parpart · Herbert Rosenthal Jewelry Corp. v. Kalpakian · See v. Durang
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a combination of unprotectable elements is eligible for copyright protection only if those elements are numerous enough and their selection and arrangement original enough that their combination constitutes an original work of authorship.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“first expressed in nature, are the common heritage of humankind, and no artist may use copyright law to prevent others from depicting them.”
3 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.