Adobe System Inc. v. Christenson’s Empirical Analysis
809 F.3d 1071 · 2015
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2024
3 federal appellate · 1 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 15 U.S.C. § 1114 (§ 32 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 15 U.S.C. § 1125 (§ 43 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 17 U.S.C. § 106 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 109 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 410 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 512 (§ 202 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
Relies on Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. · Amf Incorporated v. Sleekcraft Boats E · Brookfield Communications, Inc. v. West Coast Entertainment Corp. · Bobbs-Merrill Company v. Isidor Straus R H · United States v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The practical effect of this language is to significantly circumscribe a copyright owner's exclusive distribution right 'only to the first sale of the copyrighted work' because 'once the copyright owner places a copyrighted item in the stream of commerce by selling it, he has exhausted his exclusive statutory right to control its distribution.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy or phonorecord.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“who has sold a copyrighted article, without restriction, has parted with all right to control the sale of it.”
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.