Agee v. Paramount Communications, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2013
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 17 U.S.C. § 505 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1927 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on F. D. Rich Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Industrial Lumber Co. · Fogerty Fantasy Inc · Oliveri v. Thompson · New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc. v. Hugh L. Carey, Individually and as Governor of the State of New York · Lieb v. Topstone 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any attorney or other person admitted to conduct cases in any court of the United States or any Territory thereof who so multiplies the proceedings in any case unreasonably and vexatiously may be required by the court to satisfy personally the excess costs, expenses, and attorneys’ fees reasonably incurred because of such conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled law that in mpyright infringement cases, the courts evaluate the amount of work and skill in-rolved and the result achieved to determine attorney’s fees”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scanlon v. Kessler
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.