Stern Electronics, Inc. v. Kaufman’s Empirical Analysis
669 F.2d 852 · 1982
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Computer Associates International, Inc. v. Altai, Inc. (1992), Atari, Inc. v. North American Philips Consumer Electronics Corp. (1982)
31 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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 Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp. · La Societe Anonyme des Parfums Le Galion v. Jean Patou, Inc. · Wyoming National Bank v. Omaha National Bank · Blue Bell, Inc. v. Farah Manufacturing 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accompanied by the same sounds. Such replication is possible because many different computer programs can produce the same”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Copies’ are material objects, other than phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A work is 'fixed' ... when its embodiment ... is sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration.”
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.