Black v. Ehrich’s Empirical Analysis
44 F. 793 · 1891
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1958
4 federal appellate · 1 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[6] ‘‘Xciiher tlio author nor proprietor of a literary work has any property in its name. It is a term of description, which servos to identify the work; ¡rat any other person can, with impunity, adopt it and apply it to any other book, or to any trade commodity, provided he does not use it as a false token to induce the public; to boltcve that the thing to which it is applied is the identical thing which it originally designated. If literary property could he protected under the theory that Hie name by which it is christened is equivalent to a trade-mark, there would be no necessity for copyright laws.” Black v. Ehrich (C. C.) 44 Fed. 793 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.