Ruth v. Blue River Constructors’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. · Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America v. United States · Dow Chemical Co. v. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. · General Electric Co. v. Jewel Incandescent Lamp Co. · DeForest Radio Co. v. General Electric 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.
“[e]lements may, of course, especially in chemistry or electronics, take on some new quality or function from being brought into concert * * *,”
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.