De Forest Radio Telephone Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 236 · 1927
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 47 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 335 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Aro Manufacturing Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co. (1964), United States v. Line Material Co. (1948)
84 federal appellate · 47 district · 15 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 Motion Picture Patents Company v. Universal Film Manufacturing Company · Henry v. A. B. Dick Co. · American Refining Co. v. United States · De Forest Radio Telephone Co. v. United States
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 335 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny language used by the owner of the patent, or any conduct on his part exhibited to another from which that other may properly infer that the owner consents to his use of the patent [i.e., patented invention] ... constitutes a license ....”
18 later decisions 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.