Schriber-Schroth Co. v. Cleveland Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
305 U.S. 47 · 1938
Citation profile
168 federal appellate · 48 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 363 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Schriber-Schroth Co. v. Cleveland Trust Co. (1940), Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America v. United States (1943)
168 federal appellate · 48 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCleveland Trust Co. v. Schriber-Schroth Co. (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 33
Relies on Altoona Publix Theatres, Inc. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp. · Smith v. Snow · Radio Corporation of America v. Radio Engineering Laboratories · Railway Company v. Sayles · Paramount Publix Corporation v. American Tri-Ergon Corporation
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 363 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“broadened by amendment so as to embrace an invention not described in the application as filed, at least when adverse rights of the public have intervened.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to inform the public during the life of the patent of the limits of the monopoly asserted, so that it may be known which features may be safely used or manufactured without a license and which may not.”
5 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.