Goodman v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
78 F.3d 1007 · 1996
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Gaiman v. McFarlane (2004), Dsc Communications Corporation (1997)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid · United Mine Workers, Local No. 1854 v. National Labor Relations Board · Bryant v. North Carolina
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the duty to account does not derive from the copyright law's proscription of infringement. Rather, it comes from '... general principles of law governing the rights of co-owners.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is widely recognized that '[a] co-owner of a copyright must account to other co-owners for any profits he earns from the licensing or use of the copyright....'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a work prepared by two or more authors with the intention that their contributions be merged into inseparable or interdependent parts of a unitary whole.”
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.