Inventive Music Ltd. v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
617 F.2d 29 · 1980
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2009 · most notably Eisenberg v. Gagnon (1985), Schwimmer v. Sony Corporation of America Venture Technology Inc (1982)
7 federal appellate · 8 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 Thompson v. Oklahoma · Fireman's Fund Insurance v. Videfreeze Corp. · Association Group Life, Inc. v. Catholic War Veterans of United States · 21 N.J. Super. 591 - McCue v. Deppert · 120 N.J. Super. 85 - Ass'n Group Life, Inc. v. Catholic War Veterans
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in bringing about the sale--at least in the sense of causing the seller to negotiate with a customer, produced by the broker, who is ready, able and willing to perform, and where the transaction is later consummated without a substantial break in the ensuing negotiations. 44 Inventive Music, 617 F.2d at 32. As a general rule, this is a question which should be left to the jury. Id. Thus, a trial court should only grant summary judgment if it determines that no”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must expose the evidence to the strongest light favorable to the party against whom the motion is made and give him the advantage of every fair and reasonable inference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'requires (the fact finder) to consider whether the defendant's conduct was both injurious and transgressive of generally accepted standards of common morality or of law.' Inventive Music Ltd. v. Cohen, 617 F.2d 29 , 34 (3d Cir. 1980) (citation omitted).”
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.