Phœnix Knitting Works v. Rich’s Empirical Analysis
194 F. 708 · 1911
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1965
3 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 Gorham Company v. White · Smith v. Whitman Saddle Co. · Phœnix Knitting Works v. Bradley Knitting Co. · James E. Tompkins Co. v. New York Woven Wire Mattress Co. · Phœnix Knitting Works v. Hygienic Fleeced Underwear 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Wet are aware that it is incumbent upon defendants to prove anticipation by very clear and very satisfactory evidence, and that the testimony must be rigidly scrutinized: but we think that this test is very fairly met. The witnesses speaking of these products cannot all be falsifying, and their testimony fortified by the exhibits which they produce, is so clearly to the point that it can be explained away on no other hypothesis than that they must be totally disbelieved. There is no suggestion in the record that they are other than disinterested witnesses, and the court is not at liberty to discredit them upon whim alone.””
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.