Electric Pipe Line, Inc. v. Fluid Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
250 F.2d 697 · 1957
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1995
13 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
Relies on Alaska Gastineau Mining Co. v. Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Co. · Manufacturing Company v. Cowing · Hurlbut v. Schillinger · Wales v. Waterbury Mfg. 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.
“were the only suppliers of this unique patented fuel storage and transportation system ... [and] but for [defendant's] infringement, [patentee] would have made all these installations.”
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.