Patton v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.2d 515 · 1949
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1975
5 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 California Artificial Stone Paving Co. v. Molitor · Red Wing Trucking Svcs. v. Willson · Wadsworth Electric Mfg. Co. v. Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. · United States Rubber Co. v. General Tire & Rubber Co. · Field Body Corp. v. Highland Body Mfg. Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is the equivalent of the device held to be infringing, and the prior art is not at issue”
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.