Auerbach v. Sverdrup Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.2d 175 · 1987
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2019
7 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1498
Relies on United States v. Mitchell · Lehman v. Nakshian · Soriano v. United States · Tisdale v. United States · Adams v. Texas
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[WJhenever the copyright in any work protected under the copyright laws of the United States shall be infringed by the United States ... or by a contractor, subcontractor, or any person, firm, or corporation acting for and with the authorization or consent of the government, the exclusive action which may be brought for such infringement shall be an action by the copyright owner against the United States in a Court of Federal Claims for the recovery of his reasonable and entire compensation as damages for such infringement[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Pjrivate parties had best be certain that the government intends to shoulder liability for their wrongful acts. Absent authorization or consent, says the statute in plain terms, they proceed at their peril. This construction of the statute is confirmed by the general rule that governmental waivers of liability must be construed narrowly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“effects a policy that government wrongdoing in the realm of copyright infringement not go uncompensated. . . . The final clause extends the waiver to third parties acting for the government and with the government's 'authorization or consent.'”
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.