General Universal Systems, Inc. v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
379 F.3d 131 · 2004
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Positive Black Talk Inc. v. Cash Money Records Inc. (2004), Amazing Spaces, Inc. v. Metro Mini Storage (2010)
14 federal appellate · 6 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.
Relationships
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Salve Regina College v. Russell · 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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the extent to which the information is known outside of his business; (2) the extent to which it is known by employees and others involved in his business; (3) the extent of the measures taken by him to guard the secrecy of the information; (4) the value of the information to him and to his competitors; (5) the amount of effort or money expended by him in developing the information; (6) the ease or. difficulty with which the information could be properly acquired or duplicated by others”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Source code is a textual computer language that human programmers can read. This source code is translated by a program called a compiler into object code, the binary language that can be executed directly by a computer.” Gen. Universal Sys., Inc., 379 F.3d at 142 n. 20. 7 . Rouse and Wilson assert that Defendants could only properly deploy a claim of negligent misrepresentation against ISURF. Indeed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is settled that computer programs are entitled to copyright protection. This protection extends not only to the “literal” elements of computer software — the source code and object code — but also to a program’s nonliteral elements, including its structure, sequence, organization, user interface, screen displays, and menu structures.”
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.