United States v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
604 F.2d 1228 · 1979
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Redd Horne, Inc. (1984), United States v. Sachs (1986)
22 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 104 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Bates v. State Bar · County of Los Angeles v. Chavez-Salido · Williamson v. United States · United States v. Amaral · United States v. Drebin
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Subject to sections 107 through 118, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords; (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work; (3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or. lending; (4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly; and (5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A pirated tape that is reproduced from the original recording without authorization is plainly not the subject of a first sale.”
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.