Cohan v. Richmond’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.2d 680 · 1936
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1988
10 federal appellate ·
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 Marks v. Leo Feist, Inc. · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. United States & Mexican Trust Co. · Wooster v. Crane & Co. · Flanders v. Coleman · Cunningham v. Douglas
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The first question is whether the bill laid a suit in equity under sections 34 and 36 of the Copyright Act ( 17 U.S.C.A. §§ 34 , 36). Did the suit arise under the copyright laws? The second count certainly did not, for the plaintiff failed to allege that his songs had ever been copyrighted.””
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.