Gates Rubber Company v. Bando Chemical Industries Limited Usa R’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.3d 823 · 1993
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 61 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Data General Corporation v. Grumman Systems Support Corporation (1994), Computer Associates International, Inc. v. Altai, Inc. (1996)
63 federal appellate · 61 district · 5 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. § 102 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 106 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 410 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises · Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios 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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the binary language comprised of zeros and ones through which the computer directly receives its instructions.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]iltration should eliminate from comparison the unprotectable elements of ideas, processes, facts, public domain information, merger material, scenes a faire material, and other unprotectable elements suggested by the particular facts of the program under examination.”
5 later decisions 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.