W-R Co. v. Sova’s Empirical Analysis
106 F.2d 478 · 1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1975
4 federal appellate ·
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 Smith Griggs Manuf'G Co v. Sprague · Electric Storage Battery Co. v. Shimadzu · Buser v. Novelty Tufting Machine Co. · Austin Machinery Co. v. Buckeye Traction Ditcher Co. · American Roll-Paper Co. v. Weston
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defense of invention by another must be established by the clearest proof. . . .”
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.