Chemical Construction Corp. v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
311 F.2d 367 · 1962
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 1982 · most notably Trio Process Corp. v. L. Goldstein's Sons, Inc. (1972), Nossen v. United States (1969)
19 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. · Cuno Engineering Corporation v. Automatic Devices Corporation · Lincoln Engineering Co of Illinois v. Stewart-Warner Corporation · Sinclair & Carroll Co. v. Interchemical Corp. · Altoona Publix Theatres, Inc. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The alleged inventions of the apparatus claims comprise nothing more than an aggregation of old components in an apparatus in which these components perform no function or operation different from that theretofore performed by them in earlier gas washers. Such aggregations lack invention and are not patentable.” (Cases cited)”
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.