Poe v. Missing Persons’s Empirical Analysis
745 F.2d 1238 · 1984
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2016
7 federal appellate ·
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. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 102 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on M/V American Queen v. San Diego Marine Contruction Corp. · Fabrica Incorporated v. El Dorado Corporation · Norris Industries, Inc. v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. · May v. Morganelli-Heumann & Associates · Saxony Products, Inc. v. Guerlain, Inc.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]othing in our legal training qualifies us to determine as a matter of law whether [the swimsuit design] can be worn as an article for swimming or any other utilitarian purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here, as noted above, the uncontradicted evidence presented below established that the only reason for existence of Aquatint No. 5 [(the swimsuit)] was as a work of art.”
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.