Williams v. Crichton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• awarding attorneys’ fees to defendant because plaintiffs claim of copyright infringement was objectively unreasonable based upon the same findings that supported the defendant’s motion for summary judgment
• the “same finding” supporting granting summary judgment to the prevailing defendant also “support[ed] the Court[’s] determination . . . that [the plaintiff’s] claim was ‘objectively unreasonable’”
• awarding fees solely because losing party's claims were objectively unreasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. v. West Publishing Co. And West Publishing Corporation
  Second Circuit· 2001-01-23· cited 36×
• Randolph v. Dimension Films
  S.D. Texas· 2009-06-29· cited 26×
• Robinson v. Random House, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1995-03-26· cited 18×
• Matthew Bender & Co. v. West Publishing Co.
  Second Circuit· 2001-01-23· cited 14×
• Sparaco v. Lawler, Matusky, Skelly Engineers, LLP
  S.D. New York· 1999-08-11· cited 4×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hensley v. Eckerhart
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-16· cited 17,202×
• Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1994-03-01· cited 1,767×
• Lloyd Lieb, Trading as Specialized Cassettes v. Topstone Industries, Inc., and D. Robbins & Co., Inc.
  Third Circuit· 1986-04-14· cited 402×
• Art Rogers, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Jeff Koons Sonnabend Gallery, Inc., Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees
  Second Circuit· 1992-04-02· cited 236×
• Orgel v. Clark Boardman Co.
  Supreme Court· 1962-10-08· cited 147×
• Lewis Orgel and the Michie Company v. Clark Boardman Co., Ltd., and Alfred D. Jahr
  Second Circuit· 1962-03-27· cited 76×
• Arch Oboler and Nostalgia Lane, Inc. v. J. David Goldin, Kos Records, Radio Yesteryear, and Radiola Records
  Second Circuit· 1983-08-01· cited 71×
• June Roth v. Ilene Pritikin, as of the Estate of Nathan Pritikin, and Patrick M. McGrady
  Second Circuit· 1986-03-31· cited 52×
• Barbara Horgan, as of the Estate of George Balanchine, Plaintiff v. MacMillan Inc., Ellen Switzer, Steven Caras, and Costas
  Second Circuit· 1986-04-28· cited 31×
• Screenlife Establishment v. Tower Video, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1994-08-24· cited 28×
• Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. v. Gulf & Western Corp.
  S.D. New York· 1982-03-17· cited 11×
• Williams v. Crichton
  S.D. New York· 1994-08-17· cited 8×