clearance
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 334 U.S. 110 - Schine Chain Theatres, Inc. v. United States · 1948Most cited · 641 citing opinions
Clearance is an agreement by distributor not to exhibit a film nor to license others to do so within a given area and for a stated period after the last date of the showing of the film by the licensee with whom the agreement is made. It is, in other words, an agreement by a distributor to license films only for specified successive dates.
How often courts cite the case defining “clearance”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “clearance” — 641 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.