United States Naval Institute v. Charter Communications, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
875 F.2d 1044 · 1989
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. v. Saban Entertainment, Inc. (1995), Seiden Associates, Inc. v. Anc Holdings, Inc. (1992)
21 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
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Wesolowski · Sutton v. East River Savings Bank · 67 Wall Street Co. v. Franklin National Bank
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“generally an issue of fact, requiring the trier of fact to determine the parties' intent.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Finally, if, after all of the other guides to interpretation have been exhausted and the court concludes that there remain two reasonable interpretations of the contract, with each party knowing or having reason to know of the other party’s understanding of the term, the court should as a policy matter, assuming it is clear that the parties have indeed attempted to enter into a contract, choose the interpretation that is adverse to the party that drafted the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Naval I "), to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Pierre N. Leval, Judge, for the fashioning of relief in favor of plaintiff United States Naval Institute ("Naval”
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.