Reflectolyte Co. v. Luminous Unit Co.’s Empirical Analysis
20 F.2d 607 · 1927
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1958
10 federal appellate · 2 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 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Mast Foos Company v. Stover Manufacturing Company · I. T. S. Rubber Co. v. Essex Rubber Co. · Morgan Envelope Co. v. Albany Perforated Wrapping Paper Co. · Shepard v. Carrigan
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A new combination, consisting of old elements functioning in the same way and producing the same result, with perhaps difference in degree only, as that of prior patented structures, held not to constitute ‘invention/ ””
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.