Morseburg v. Balyon’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 972 · 1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2019
3 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
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Hines v. Davidowitz · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul · City of New Orleans v. Dukes · Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he crucial inquiry is not whether state law reaches matters also subject to federal regulation, but whether the two laws function harmoniously rather than discordantly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a manner that did not disturb a careful balance struck by Congress between those matters deserving of protection and those things that should remain free,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the burden is on one complaining of a due process violation to establish that the legislature has acted in an arbitrary and irrational way.”
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.