Drama
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 222 U.S. 55 - Kalem Co. v. Harper Bros. · 1911Most cited · 72 citing opinions
copyright sense
drama may be achieved by action as well as by speech. Action can tell a story, display all the most vivid relations between men, and depict every kind of human emotion, without the aid of a word. It would be impossible to deny the title of drama to pantomime as played by masters of the art.
How often courts cite the case defining “Drama”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Drama” — 197 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.