Lin-brook Builders Hardware v. Gertler’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.2d 298 · 1965
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Walt Disney Productions v. Air Pirates (1978), Picture Music, Inc. v. Bourne, Inc. (1972)
34 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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 Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. · Gay v. Parpart · L. A. Westermann Co. v. Dispatch Printing Co. · Baker v. Selden · Alfred Bell & Co. v. Catalda Fine Arts, 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen one person engages another, whether as employee or as an independent contractor, to produce a work of an artistic nature ... the presumption arises that the mutual intent of the parties is that the title to the copyright shall be in the person at whose instance and expense the work is done.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“without any evidence as to the circumstances or intendment of its execution”
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.