Brown Bag Software v. Symantec Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 1465 · 1992
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Computer Associates International, Inc. v. Altai, Inc. (1992), Gates Rubber Company v. Bando Chemical Industries Limited Usa R (1993)
36 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. · Wrenn v. McFadden · Texas State Commission for the Blind v. United States · Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions, Inc. And Sid & Marty Krofft Productions, Inc. v. McDonald Corporation and Needham, Harper & Steers, Inc., Defendants- Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions, Inc. And Sid & Marty Krofft Productions, Inc. v. McDonald Corporation and Needham, Harper & Steers, Inc., Defendants
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“presented ' indicia of a sufficient disagreement concerning the substantial similarity of [the] two works,' then the case must be submitted to a trier of fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Gaye · Williams v. Gaye“serves 'the purpose of defining the scope of plaintiff's copyright.'”
3 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.