482 F. Supp. 1195 - Testa v. Janssen’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2015
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1338 · 28 U.S.C. § 1400
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Time, Inc. v. Manning · Page, Appeal Of · Swavely v. VANDEGRIFT · 161 F. Supp. 178 - Yonce v. Miners Memorial Hospital Ass'n
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Civil actions, suits or proceedings arising under any Act of Congress relating to copyrights may be instituted in the district in which the defendant or his agent resides or may be found.”
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.