Donald v. Uarco Business Forms’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.2d 764 · 1973
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2009
9 federal appellate · 3 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 Compco Corp. v. Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. · Clay v. United States · Alfred Bell & Co. v. Catalda Fine Arts, Inc. · Fred Fisher, Inc. v. Dillingham · O. W. Donald v. Zack Meyer's T. v. Sales and Service, Moore Business Forms, 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a work is independently created, it is entitled to a copyright even though it is identical to a work in the public domain.”
1 later decision 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.