Freedman v. Friedman’s Empirical Analysis
242 F.2d 364 · 1957
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1974
8 federal appellate · 4 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. § 271
Relies on Henry v. A. B. Dick Co. · Florence-Mayo Nuway Co. v. Hardy
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a general rule, a person may be guilty of contributory infringement when, without authority from the patentee, he manufactures, sells, or furnishes one or more parts or elements of a patented combination with the intent and for the purpose of bringing about the use thereof in such combination after another person, such as the purchaser or user, has supplied .the other parts or elements, if any, and assembled all the parts into the complete combination. So, also, the sale of ingredients of a patented composition with the expectation and intent that they be used in making it, may constitute contributory infringement.””
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.