Gotz v. Universal Products Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 1981
4 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 572 · 35 U.S.C. § 31 · 35 U.S.C. § 32
Relies on Appliance Inv. v. Western Electric Co. · Cheatham Electric Switching Device Co. v. Transit Development Co. · Victor Talking Mach. Co. v. Starr Piano Co. · 25 F. Supp. 591 - Galion Iron Works & Mfg. Co. v. Beckwith Machinery Co. · 12 F. Supp. 391 - T. H. Symington & Son, Inc. v. Symington 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I do not think a party acting on his own initiative should impose a burden of costs upon the unsuccessful party by preparing expensive illustrations and exhibits without first consulting with the court. These are matters which should properly be determined in pre-trial conference under Rule 16 of the [Federal] Rules of Civil Procedure.” [ 3 F.R.D. 156 .]”
1 later decision 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.