Magee v. Coca-Cola Co.’s Empirical Analysis
232 F.2d 596 · 1956
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 1982 · most notably Inglett & Co. v. Everglades Fertilizer Co. (1958), Amphenol Corporation, a Corporation of Delaware v. General Time Corporation, a Corporation of Delaware (1968)
28 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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 101
Relies on Dyer v. MacDougall · Dewey v. Clark · Richards v. Chase Elevator Co. · Traylor v. Black, Sivalls & Bryson, Inc. · Campana Corp. v. Harrison
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * an offer to sell, made to a prospective purchaser after the experimental stage has been passed, the invention reduced to practice, and the apparatus manufactured in its perfected form, is placing on sale within the statute.” Magee v. Coca-Cola Co. 232 F.2d 596 at 600 (7th Cir. 1956); Wende v. Horine, 225 F. 501 at 505 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Nevertheless, although it is therefore true that in strict theory a party having the affirmative might succeed in convincing a jury of the truth of his allegations in spite of the fact that all the witnesses denied them, we think it plain that a verdict would nevertheless have to be directed against him.””
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.