Shaffer v. Armer’s Empirical Analysis
184 F.2d 303 · 1950
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 1972 · most notably Kobe, Inc. v. Dempsey Pump Co. (1952), Consolidated Electrodynamics Corp. v. Midwestern Instruments, Inc. (1958)
21 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Cuno Engineering Corporation v. Automatic Devices Corporation · Atlantio Works v. Brady Brady · Sinclair & Carroll Co. v. Interchemical Corp. · Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Ray-O-Vac Co. · Jungersen v. Ostby & Barton 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To make sure that a monopoly is not granted for mere perfection of workmanship, the courts closely scrutinize claims to combinations for improvements in a crowded art. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. v. Walker, 329 U.S. 1, 10 , 67 S.Ct. 6 , 91 L.Ed. 3 .””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no amount of commercial success can bridge the gap between mechanical skill and invention.”
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.