Goodwin v. Borg-Warner Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.2d 267 · 1946
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 1997 · most notably The Cold Metal Process Company and the Union National Bank of Youngstown, Ohio, Trustee v. Republic Steel Corporation, Republic Steel Corporation v. The Cold Metal Process Company and the Union National Bank of Youngstown, Ohio, Trustee (1956), Watson v. Allen (1958)
24 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 31
Relies on Elizabeth v. Pavement Co. · Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Ray-O-Vac Co. · Smith Griggs Manuf'G Co v. Sprague · General Electric Co. v. Jewel Incandescent Lamp Co. · Hildreth v. Mastoras
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The public use which invalidates an invention under § 31, 35 U.S.C., 35 U.S.C.A. § 31 , is a public use of the very invention patented. American Hide & Leather Splitting & Dressing Mach. Co. v. American Tool & Mach. Co., C.C.Mass., 1 Fed.Cas. p. 647, No. 302; Draper v. Wattles, C.C.Mass., 7 Fed.Cas. p. 1061, No. 4073. Cf. Andrews v. Hovey, 124 U.S. 694, 712 , 8 S.Ct. 676 , 31 L.Ed. 557 ; Campbell v. Mayor of New York, C.C.N.Y., 47 F. 515 .””
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.