Rano v. Sipa Press, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
987 F.2d 580 · 1993
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Peterson v. Highland Music, Inc. (1998), Warren
40 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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. § 104 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 106 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 203 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 502 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 505 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1338
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. D Cuesta · Tristani v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. · 47 Cal. 3d 654 - Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp.
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant must perform an act or consummate a transaction within the forum, purposefully availing himself of the privilege of conducting activities in the forum and invoking the benefits and protections of its laws; (2) the claim must arise out of or result from the defendant’s forum-related activities; (3) exercise of jurisdiction must be reasonable.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] breach will justify rescission of a licensing agreement only when it is of so material and substantial a nature that [it] affect[s] the very essence of the contract and serve[s] to defeat the object of the parties.... [T]he breach must constitute a total failure in the performance of the contract.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] material breach of a licensing agreement gives rise to a right of rescission which allows the nonbreaching party to terminate the agreement.”
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.