Shirley Goodman v. Audrey Lee and Nikki N. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
815 F.2d 1030 · 1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Bassett Entertainment Corp. v. Mashantucket Pequot Tribe (2000), Gaiman v. McFarlane (2004)
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 201 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 304 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1338 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on United States v. Grinnell Corp. · T. B. Harms Company v. Edward Eliscu and Ross Jungnickel, Inc. · Keith v. Scruggs · 186 F. Supp. 655 - Harrington v. Mure
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action arises under the Copyright Act if and only if the complaint is for a remedy expressly granted by the Act ... or asserts a claim requiring construction of the Act, ... or, at the very least and perhaps more doubtfully, presents a case where a distinctive policy of the Act requires that federal principles control disposition of the claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly involve[d] the application and interpretation of the copyright ownership provisions of 17 U.S.C. Sec. 201(a).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]lthough the original copyright to 'Let the Good Times Roll' was acquired under the Copyright Act of 1909, the later Copyright Act of 1976 makes no substantive change in the provisions relevant to this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goodman v. Lee
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.