Pierce & Bushnell Manuf'g Co. v. Werckmeister’s Empirical Analysis
72 F. 54 · 1896
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1982
5 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony · Henry Wheaton v. Richard Peters · Hartell v. Tilghman · Werckmeister v. Pierce & Bushnell Manuf'g 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 4962. That no person shall maintain an action for the infringement of his copyright unless he shall give notice thereof by inserting in the several copies of every edition published, on the title page or the page immediately following, if it be a book, or if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, or model or design intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts, by inscribing upon some visible portion thereof, or of the substance on which the same shall be mounted, the following words, viz.: ‘Entered according to act of Congress, in the year-, by A. B., in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington’; or, at his option, the word ‘Copyright,’ together with the year the copyright was entered, and the name of the party by whom it was taken out; thus ‘Copyright, 18 — , by A. B.’ ” [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3411].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““Section 4962 does not deal with ‘copies’ as distinct from ‘originals,’ or with ‘originals’ as distinct from ‘copies,’ as those terms are commonly understood; but it deals with published copyrighted things, and it declares that no action for infringement will lie unless each copyrighted thing which is published or made public, be it a ‘copy,’ so called, or an ‘original,’ so called, or another edition or reproduction of such copy or original, has inscribed upon it the notice of copyright.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.