Bonner v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.3d 290 · 2005
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2024
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Bouchat v. Baltimore Ravens Football Club, Inc. · Figg v. Schroeder · Konor Enterprises, Inc. v. Eagle Publications, Inc. · South Atlantic Ltd. Partnership v. Riese
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could properly be awarded summary judgment with respect to any given revenue stream if either (1) there exists no conceivable connection between the infringement and those revenues; or (2) despite the existence of a conceivable connection, [the copyright owner] offered only speculation as to the existence of a causal link between the infringement and the revenues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In meeting its initial burden, however, a copyright holder must show more than the infringer's total gross revenue from all of its profit streams.... Rather, `gross revenue' refers only to revenue reasonably related to the infringement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]nce liability has been shown, § 504(b) creates an initial presumption that the infringer's `profits ... attributable to the infringement' are equal to its gross revenue.”
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.