Toledo Pressed Steel Co. v. Standard Parts, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
307 U.S. 350 · 1939
Citation profile
198 federal appellate · 62 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 403 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2003 · most notably Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. (1950), Cuno Engineering Corporation v. Automatic Devices Corporation (1941)
198 federal appellate · 62 district · 4 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
reviewedMcCloskey v. Toledo Pressed Steel Co. (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Lincoln Engineering Co of Illinois v. Stewart-Warner Corporation · Altoona Publix Theatres, Inc. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp. · Paramount Publix Corporation v. American Tri-Ergon Corporation · Reckendorfer v. Faber · Hollister v. Benedict Burnham Manuf'G
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 403 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * And similarly without significance on the question of novelty is the fact that, as plaintiff claims, utility resulted and commercial success followed from what patentees did. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * They performed no joint function. Each served as separately it had done. The patented device results from mere aggregation of two old devices, and not from invention or discovery. % 5{i”
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.