Gardner v. Nizer’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2009
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. v. Strachan Shipping Co. · Railway Employes' Department v. Hanson · Rosemont Enterprises Inc. v. Random House, Inc. · Oxford Book Co. v. College Entrance Book Co. · Puddu v. Buonamici Statuary, 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pre-1978 copyright law provided that: [c]opyright secured under this title ... may be assigned, granted, or mortgaged by an instrument in writing signed by the proprietor of the copyright, or may be bequeathed by will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Copyright infringement will be found only when there is 'substantial' or 'material' copying, appropriation or taking of the copyrighted work.”
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.