412 F. Supp. 2d 1106 - Field v. Google Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2022
4 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
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 107 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 501 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 512 (§ 202 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises · Gustafson v. Alloyd Co. · Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios Inc · Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A copyright owner may grant a nonexclusive license expressly or impliedly through conduct.”
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.