Bridgmon Icus v. Array Systems Corporation a Icus’s Empirical Analysis
325 F.3d 572 · 2003
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Brown v. City of Houston (2003), Positive Black Talk Inc. v. Cash Money Records Inc. (2004)
17 federal appellate ·
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 Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. · Fogerty Fantasy Inc · Little v. Liquid Air Corp.
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o determine whether an instance of copying is legally actionable , a side-by-side comparison must be made between the original and the copy to determine whether a layman would view the two works as”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A copyright infringement claim requires proof of (1) ownership of a valid copyright and (2) actionable copying, which is the copying of constituent elements of the work that are copyrightable.” Bridgmon v. Array Sys. Corp., 325 F.3d 572 , 576 (5th Cir.2003). Actionable copying consists of (1) actual copying, i.e.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Summary judgment is appropriate when, viewing the evidence and all justifiable inferences in the light most favorable to the non-moving party, there is no genuine issue of material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
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.