Solomon v. Renstrom’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.2d 805 · 1945
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1974
12 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 Sanitary Refrigerator Co. v. Winters · Morgan v. Daniels · Singer Manufacturing Company v. Herman Cramer · Ross Winans v. The New York and Erie Railroad Company · Svenson v. Mutual Life Ins.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The interpretation of the claims of a patent is not to be determined by the opinion of experts, but is a question of law for the court . . . The additional [expert] evidence was therefore simply advisory. The court was not required to accept it even though it may have stood without contradiction.”
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.