Vance W. Tolle and Paul E. Ludy v. William A. Starkey’s Empirical Analysis
255 F.2d 935 · 1958
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1997
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 Den Beste v. Martin · 14 App. D.C. 137 - Winslow v. Austin · O'Donnell v. Hartt · Kohl v. Wilms
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he rule which requires corroboration of an inventor’s testimony does not apply to a single witness testifying after the death of the inventor, as to disclosures made to.him by the inventor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.