Getty v. Kinzbach Tool Co.’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.2d 249 · 1941
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2007
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Wichita Visible Gasoline Pump Co. v. Clear Vision Pump Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * In a patent for a combination, each element must be used, or its mechanical equivalent. The omission of any element, or the substitution of another not a mere mechanical equivalent to accomplish the same result, avers infringement. * * *»”
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.