Collins v. Kraft’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. · Diamond Rubber Company of New York v. Consolidated Rubber Tire Company · Mumm v. Jacob E. Decker & Sons · General Protective Committee v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Smith v. Hall
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statutory presumption of validity from the issuance of a patent means that ‘the burden of proving want of novelty is upon him who avers it * * * but his burden is a heavy one, as it has been held that “every reasonable doubt should be resolved against him.” ’ Mumm v. Jacob E. Decker, 1937, 301 U.S. 168, 171 , 57 S.Ct. 675, 676 , 81 L.Ed. 983 .””
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.