Foss v. Eastern States Exposition’s Empirical Analysis
2023
Citation profile
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Massachusetts District Court)
Relationships
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 1009 · 17 U.S.C. § 106 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 411 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie · Costello v. United States · Semtek International Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Epstein
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“turns on an issue too disconnected from the merits of the underlying claim to constitute an adjudication of the claimed rights of the parties sufficient to terminate a controversy and preclude future litigation of that controversy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foss v. Marvic“[i]n some instances, the doctrines of estoppel or laches could require the conclusion that it would be plainly unfair to subject the defendant to a second action”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Foss v. Marvic“as a sanction explicitly based on [Foss's] repeatedly ignoring court directives requiring amendment or refiling to allege compliance with a precondition to suit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Foss v. Marvic
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.