In re Sackett’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.2d 248 · 1943
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2004
6 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 Ex parte Drawbaugh · In re Sackett
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]istinction has also been made in some cases between the right to inspect judicial records before trial and the right to inspect the record of the court after trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If appellant had a trade secret, it was his privilege to practice it in the usual manner, but when he asked for a patent on his alleged invention and brought the same into the public forum of the court, it is not such a right as a court (and especially this court under the circumstances) is authorized to protect.””
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.