Building Officials & Code Adm. v. Code Technology, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 730 · 1980
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably West Publishing Company v. Mead Data Central Inc (1986), G.S. Rasmussen & Associates, Inc. v. Kalitta Flying Service, Inc. (1992)
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 105 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Morton · Fox Film Corporation v. Doyal · Henry Wheaton v. Richard Peters · Banks v. Manchester
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he law thus seems clear that judicial opinions and statutes are in the public domain and are not subject to copyright.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“subject to exceptions dictated by public policy with respect to such publications as statutes and judicial opinions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he citizens are the authors of the law.”
3 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.