T-Peg Inc’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

cited by 38 later decisions

September 2021

most recently cited

21 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 542 F. Supp. 2d 153 - London-Sire Records, Inc. v. Doe 1 (2008), 490 F. Supp. 2d 228 - TMTV CORP. v. Pegasus Broadcasting of San Juan (2007)

21 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 Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. · Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises · Peter Pan Fabrics, Inc. v. Martin Weiner Corp. · Concrete Machinery Co. v. Classic Lawn Ornaments, Inc. · Lotus Development Corporation v. Borland International 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“A trier of fact may impute access when there is ‘evidence that a third party with whom both the plaintiff and defendant were dealing had possession of plaintiff’s work,’ and the 'plaintiff’s and defendant's dealings took place concurrently.’ ” (quoting 4 Nimmer & Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright % 13.02[A] (2006))). 31 . 4 Nimmer & Nimmer, supra, § 13.02[A] (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Humphreys & Partners Architects, L.P. v. Lessard Design, Inc. · 473 F. Supp. 2d 168 - American Century Home Fabrics, Inc. v. Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.
“[T]he design of a building as embodied in any tangible medium of expression, including a building, architectural plans, or drawings. The work includes the overall form as well as the arrangement and composition of spaces and elements in the design, but does not include individual standard features.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. T-Peg v. Vermont Timber Works, et al. · 753 F. Supp. 2d 753 - Forest River, Inc. v. Heartland Recreational Vehicles, LLC
“A plaintiff who owns a copyrighted work has the ultimate burden to prove that (1) the defendant 'actually copied the work as a factual matter' and (2) the 'copying . . . rendered the infringing and copyrighted works substantially similar.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Ramos Perea v. Editorial Cultural, Inc. · Cortes-Ramos v. Martin-Morales

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.