Grip Nut Co. v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
124 F.2d 814 · 1941
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1983 · most notably Aralac, Inc. v. Hat Corp. (1948), Wells v. Universal Pictures Co. (1948)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
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 E. Edelmann & Co. v. Triple-A Specialty Co. · Chicago Metallic Mfg. Co. v. Edward Katzinger Co. · Davis v. American Foundry Equipment Co. · Reynolds Spring Co. v. L. A. Young Industries, Inc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this case, the plaintiff alleges that the defendant has charged plaintiff with infringement of patents and that plaintiff denies it. The plaintiff is entitled to have a declaration as to whether that charge is true.””
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.