Henderson v. Tompkins’s Empirical Analysis
60 F. 758 · 1894
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1986
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Canal Company v. Clark · Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony · Brown v. Piper · Smith v. Whitman Saddle Co. · Slawson v. Grand Street Railroad
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * *. But a multitude of books rest safely under copyright, which show only ordinary skill and diligence in their preparation. Compilations are noticeable examples of this fact. With reference to this subject, the courts have not undertaken to assume the functions of critics, or to measure carefully the degree of originality, or literary skill or training involved. 63 In line with these principles, courts have said that in the copyright context the standard for originality of a compilation or derivative work is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The latter carries an implication which excludes the results of only ordinary skill, while nothing of this is necessarily involved in the former. Indeed, the statutes themselves make broad distinctions on this point. So much as relates to copyrights * * * is expressed, so far as this particular is concerned, by the mere words,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“with such aid as may be derived from the words”
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.