Myers v. Callaghan’s Empirical Analysis
5 F. 726 · 1881
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1986
1 federal appellate ·
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““The defendants Ewell and Denslow, who were employed by the other defendants to annotate those decisions or reports, both state, upon examination, that their work was independent of that of Mr. Freeman; but it appears from the evidence that all the volumes of Mr. Freeman were- used in thus editing or annotating, and, although it may have been tlieir intention to make an independent work, it is apparent, from a comparison of the Freeman volumes and those- of the defendants, that the former were used throughout by tbe editors employed by tlie defendants. It is true that in each volume, perhaps in the majority of cases, there is the appearance of independent labor performed by ■them, without regard to the volumes of Mr. Freeman; but yet in every volume it is also apparent that Mr. Freeman’s volumes were used, in some inslimeew words and sentences copied without change, in others, changed only in form; and the conclusion is irresistible that, for a large portion of the work performed in behalf of the defendants, the editors did not resort to original sources of informa lion, but obtained that information from the volumes of Mr.-Freeman. Undoubtedly, it was competent for an editor to take the opinions of the supreme court, and possibly from the volumes of Mr. Freeman, and make an independent work; but it is always attended with great risk for a person to sit down, and, with the copyrighted volume of law reports before him, undertake to make an independent report of a ease. It is n”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the paging of the [defendant's] volumes is substantially the same [as plaintiff's page numbers] so that the cases in the corresponding volumes appear on the same page.”
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