Atari Games Corp. v. Oman’s Empirical Analysis
979 F.2d 242 · 1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023
6 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. · California Department of Transportation v. Naegele Outdoor Advertising Co. of California · Kent v. Sanborn Cooperative Grain Co. · Alfred Bell & Co. v. Catalda Fine Arts, Inc. · Kregos v. Associated Press
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not in any way question the Register's position that 'simple geometric shapes and coloring alone are per se not copyrightable.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the requisite level of creativity [for copyrightability] is extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.