Wildmon v. Berwick Universal Pictures’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 21 · 1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2022
4 federal appellate · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Grand Jury Proceedings of Beverly v. United States · Ruiz v. Estelle · United States v. Baylor University Medical Center
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not a generally recognized term of art in the law of stay and injunction. Moreover, when parties such as Wildmon and AFA, who have drafted their own agreement, expressly advert to the possibility of a breach and specify the remedy as liquidated monetary damages--with no mention of injunction--injunctive relief is virtually waived. By definition,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[P]resentation of a substantial case is only the threshold requirement. That threshold step alone is not sufficient.... [A] 'serious legal question' ... [and] demonstrat[ing] a heavy weight of equity in favor of the stay [is also required].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“instead, the movant need only present a substantial case on the merits when a serious legal question is involved and show that the balance of the equities weighs heavily in favor of granting the stay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.