Roth Greeting Cards v. United Card Co.’s Empirical Analysis
429 F.2d 1106 · 1970
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions, Inc. And Sid & Marty Krofft Productions, Inc. v. McDonald Corporation and Needham, Harper & Steers, Inc., Defendants- Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions, Inc. And Sid & Marty Krofft Productions, Inc. v. McDonald Corporation and Needham, Harper & Steers, Inc., Defendants (1977), Transgo, Inc. v. Ajac Transmission Parts Corp. (1985)
50 federal appellate · 12 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 Mazer v. Stein · White-Smith Music Publishing Company v. Apollo Company · Gay v. Parpart · Baker v. Selden · Alfred Bell & Co. v. Catalda Fine Arts, 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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all elements of each card, including [298 U.S.App.D.C. 306] text, arrangement of text, art work, and association between art work and text, [must] be considered as a whole”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the absence of any countervailing evidence of creation independent of the copyrighted source may well render clearly erroneous a finding that there was not copying.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“represent[ed] a tangible expression of an idea”
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.