578 F. Supp. 1297 - Smith v. Weinstein’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Whelan Associates, Inc. v. Jaslow Dental Laboratory, Inc. (1986), Lehman v. Dow Jones & Co. (1986)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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. § 301 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1338
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Hagans v. Lavine · Rosado v. Wyman · Hurn v. Oursler · Ohio v. Kentucky
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party may by contract agree to pay for ideas, even though such ideas could not be protected by copyright law. Rights under such an agreement are qualitatively different from copyright claims, and their recognition creates no monopoly in the ideas involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“said something to indicate an agreement to pay”
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.