G. R. Leonard & Co. v. Stack’s Empirical Analysis
386 F.2d 38 · 1967
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1999
11 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Armour & Co. v. Wilson & Co. · Adventures in Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places to Eat, Inc. · Jewelers' Circular Pub. Co. v. Keystone Pub. Co. · West Publishing Co. v. Edward Thompson Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * You must not bodily transmit the results of another’s labor from his sheets to your own; but, having made an honest canvass, you may use his work for the purpose of checking and revising your own, if you will do so honestly, independently, and thoroughly, and having done so, you may publish the final result. If you use another’s copyrighted directory without thorough verification, you are, to the extent that you fail to carefuly verify, guilty of the pure, unadulterated labor-saving device of copying. If you use it only for comparison, and then positively verify at the cost of your own exertion, you have not done wrong, because you have only used the copyrighted matter as a guide to the facts, which is the exact use to which the compiler has dedicated his book.” 386 F.2d at 39 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is recognized that a compiler of a directory or the like may make a fair use of an existing compilation serving the same purpose if he first makes an honest, independent canvass; he merely compares and checks his own compilation with that of the copyrighted publication; and publishes the result after verifying the additional items derived from the copyrighted publication.” 386 F.2d at 39 .”
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.