Benjamin Phillips and Paul S. Starcher v. Arthur W. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
278 F.2d 732 · 1960
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1983 · most notably Swain v. Mallory (1964), Patterson v. Hauck (1965)
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 Thurston v. Wulff · Potter v. Tone
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While each and every element of a reduction to practice must be corroborated, there is no fixed single formula in proving corroboration. It may be established by documentary evidence and the activities of others such as is patently shown in the record of the instant appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the compound which [the corroborator] actually tested was that of the count, it is obvious that the requirement of corroboration to establish a reduction to practice has been fulfilled. 23 "So the next question to be resolved is whether the tested compound was [the compound in question] * * *.”
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.