Rice v. American Program Bureau’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 685 · 1971
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2010
10 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.
Relationships
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 112 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Ideal Toy Corp. v. Fab-Lu Ltd. · Joshua Meier Co. v. Albany Novelty Manufacturing Co. · Rushton v. Vitale · American Metropolitan Enterprises of New York, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Records, 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“presentation of all of the songs from the opera Jesus Christ Superstar without costumes, words, or scenery, but in sequence could arguably develop the overall plot of the opera, and . . . might possibly be 'dramatic'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a copyright holder in the ordinary case may be presumed to suffer irreparable harm when his right to the exclusive use of the copyrighted material is invaded.”
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.