Rodgers v. Eighty Four Lumber Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2014
2 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 504 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 505 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Gershwin Publishing Corp. v. Columbia Artists Management, Inc. · 616 F. Supp. 1001 - Music City Music v. Alfa Foods, Ltd. · Chappell & Co., Inc., and Frank Music Corp. v. Middletown Farmers Market & Auction Co., Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. And Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc. v. Middletown Farmers Market & Auction Co., Matt Dubey and Harold Karr v. Middletown Farmers Market & Auction 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts have applied many standards as a guideline in the imposition of statutory damages. Running through them as a common thread is the principle that defendant should not reap a benefit from its violation of the copyright laws, that statutory damages should exceed the un paid license fees “so that defendant will be put on notice that it costs less to obey the copyright laws than to violate them.” Music City Music v. Alfa Foods, Ltd., 616 F.Supp. 1001, 1003 (E.D.Va.1985). Furthermore, they serve the strong public interest in insuring integrity of copyright laws, (ibid, p. 1004) [sic].”
2 later decisions 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.