Ritchie v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
395 F.3d 283 · 2005
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Roger Miller Music, Inc. v. Sony/ATV Publishing, LLC (2007), Cambridge Literary Properties, Ltd. v. W. Goebel Porzellanfabrik G.m.b.H. & Co. Kg. (2007)
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor · Beneficial National Bank v. Anderson · T. B. Harms Company v. Edward Eliscu and Ross Jungnickel, Inc. · Briarpatch Limited Lp v. Phoenix Pictures Inc · Rosciszewski v. Arete Associates, 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) [A]ll legal or equitable rights that are equivalent to any of the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright as specified by section 106 in works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression and come within the subject matter of copyright as specified by sections 102 and 103, whether ... published or unpublished, are governed exclusively by this title. Thereafter, no person is entitled to any such right or equivalent right in any such work under the common law or statutes of any State.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“each new infringing act causes a new three year statutory period to begin,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“made it clear that he regarded the songs he had written as his songs”
2 later decisions 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.