O'Rourke v. Smithsonian Institution Press’s Empirical Analysis
399 F.3d 113 · 2005
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Sherwood · Lane v. Pena Secretary of Transportation · Communications Workers v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · In re Disbarment of Weisser · Expeditions Unlimited Aquatic Enterprises, Inc. v. Smithsonian Institution
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]henever the copyright in any work protected under the copyright laws of the United States shall be infringed by the United States ..., the exclusive action which may be brought for such infringement shall be an action by the copyright owner against the United States in the Court of Federal Claims for the recovery of his reasonable and entire compensation as damages for such infringement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Smithsonian lacks both the 'authority' necessary for it to qualify as an "authority of the government of the United States”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Raven v. Sajet“an establishment ... for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Raven v. Sajet
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.