Keith v. Scruggs’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2018
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Texaco Inc. · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · T. B. Harms Company v. Edward Eliscu and Ross Jungnickel, Inc. · Elan Associates, Ltd. v. Quackenbush Music, Ltd.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an action “arises under” the Copyright Act if and only if the complaint is for a remedy expressly granted by the Act, e.g., a suit for infringement.....or asserts a claim requiring construction of the Act, .. ., or, at the very least and perhaps more doubtfully, presents a case where a distinctive policy of the Act requires that federal principles control the disposition of the claim. The general interest that copyrights, like all other forms of property, should be enjoyed by their true owner is not enough to meet this last test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“actions to establish title do not 'arise under' the copyright laws”
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.