Johnson v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
641 F.3d 867 · 2011
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Illinois Central District Court)
Relationships
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 102 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 411 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 505 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1919
Relies on Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · 176 L. Ed. 2d 18 - Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Muchnick · 98 Ill. 2d 109 - Board of Trade v. Dow Jones & Co. · Feldman v. American Memorial Life Insurance · Perrian v. E O'Grady
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“freely give leave [to amend] when justice so requires.”
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.