Fowler v. Sponge Products Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
246 F.2d 223 · 1957
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2018
8 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
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 Mercoid Corporation v. Mid-Continent Inv Co · Atlantio Works v. Brady Brady · Market Street Cable Railway Co. v. Rowley · Simms v. Andrews · B. F. Sturtevant Co. v. Massachusetts Hair & Felt 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a counterclaim for treble damages is permissible in nature so that failure by a defendant to plead it in a prior patent suit does not bar a subsequent independent suit by him under the anti-trust laws.”
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.