Guide v. Desperak’s Empirical Analysis
249 F.2d 145 · 1957
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1978
11 federal appellate · 3 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 General Electric Co. v. Wabash Appliance Corp. · Leeds Catlin Company v. Victor Talking Machine Company · Williams Mfg Co v. United Shoe Machinery Corporation · Parks v. Booth · Rowell v. Lindsay
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Infringement of a combination patent occurs only through a combination comprising every one of its elements or a mechanical equivalent.”
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.