May v. Morganelli-Heumann & Associates’s Empirical Analysis
618 F.2d 1363 · 1980
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Baltimore Orioles, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Players Ass'n (1986), Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. v. MCA, Inc. (1983)
24 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · Bryant v. North Carolina · 41 Cal. 2d 587 - Coughlin v. Blair · Picture Music, Inc. v. Bourne, Inc. · Brattleboro Publishing Co. v. Winmill Publishing Corp.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in a written instrument signed by them.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“that the parties expected the employer to own the copyright and that the artist set his price accordingly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen one person engages another, whether as employee or as an independent contractor, to produce a work of an artistic nature, that in the absence of an express contractual reservation of the copyright in the artist, the presumption arises that the mutual intent of the parties is that- the title to the copyright shall be in the person at whose instance and expense the work is done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Dolman v. Agee
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.