Historical Research v. Cabral’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.3d 377 · 1996
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2018
7 federal appellate · 3 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. § 505 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Fogerty Fantasy Inc · Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co. · Cable/Home Communication Corp. v. Network Productions, Inc. · Export Group v. Reef Industries, 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“District courts should consider, among other things, the degree of success obtained; frivolousness; motivation’ objective unreasonableness (both in the factual and legal arguments in the case); and the need in particular circumstances to advance considerations of compensation and deterrence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'exceptional circumstances' are not a prerequisite to an award of attorneys fees; district courts may freely award fees, as long as they treat prevailing plaintiffs and prevailing defendants alike and seek to promote the Copyright Act's objectives.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“willful infringement is an important factor favoring an award of fees”
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.