Arthur Liebscher v. Wilson P. Boothroyd’s Empirical Analysis
258 F.2d 948 · 1958
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Phillips v. AWH Corp. (2005), Renishaw PLC v. Marposs Societa' Per Azioni (1998)
10 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 Deibel v. Heise & Schumacher · Sweetland v. Cole · Bocciarelli v. Huffman · Kreidel v. Parker
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne need not arbitrarily pick and choose from the various accepted definitions of a word to decide which meaning was intended as the word is used in a given claim. The subject matter, the context, etc., will more often then not lead to the correct conclusion.”
5 later decisions 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.