Permutit Co. v. Graver Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
284 U.S. 52 · 1931
Citation profile
249 federal appellate · 60 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 462 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2007 · most notably General Electric Co. v. Wabash Appliance Corp. (1938), Schriber-Schroth Co. v. Cleveland Trust Co. (1940)
249 federal appellate · 60 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPermutit Co. v. Graver Corp. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Seymour v. Osborne · Alexander Milburn Co. v. Davis-Bournonville Co. · Concrete Appliances Co. v. Gomery · McCarty v. Lehigh Val R 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 462 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inform the public during the life of the ['274] patent of the limits of monopoly asserted”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * while drawings may be referred to for illustration and may be used as an aid in interpreting the specification or claim, they are of no avail where there is an entire absence of description of the alleged invention, or a failure to claim it. * * *»”
3 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.