Atari, Inc. v. North American Philips Consumer Electronics Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
672 F.2d 607 · 1982
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 32 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 253 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Roland Machinery Company v. Dresser Industries Inc (1984), Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp. (1983)
87 federal appellate · 32 district ·
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. § 102 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 106 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Castor v. United States · Mazer v. Stein · Ingraham v. Wright
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 253 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the accused work is so similar to the plaintiff's work that an ordinary reasonable person would conclude that the defendant unlawfully appropriated the plaintiff's protectible expression by taking material of substance and value.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“incidents, characters or settings which are as a practical matter indispensable, or at least standard, in the treatment of a given topic.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`defendant had access to the copyrighted work”
7 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.