Falk v. Brett Lithographing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
48 F. 678 · 1891
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1932
1 federal appellate ·
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 Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony · Hutchins v. King
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendants * * * have used plaintiff’s production as a guide for making others, and have thereby substantially copied it as he produced it, and infringed upon his exclusive right of copying it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Falk v. Donaldson
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.