Aronson v. Toy Devices, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.2d 91 · 1924
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1981
6 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Dececo Co. v. George E. Gilchrist Co. · Franklin Brass Foundry Co. v. Shapiro & Aronson, Inc. · Brown v. Huntington Piano Co. · Hobbs Mfg. Co. v. Gooding
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mere simplification of a substantial character, disposing of parts which have long been in use, may amount to invention. 'To obtain simplicity is the highest trait of genius.'”
1 later decision 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.