In re Fridolph’s Empirical Analysis
134 F.2d 414 · 1943
Citation profile
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How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably In re Shaffer (1956), Alza Corporation v. Mylan Laboratories Inc Mylan Pharmceuticals Inc (2006)
1 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.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n considering more than one reference, the question always is: does such art suggest doing the thing the [inventor] did.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.