Milcor Steel Co. v. George A. Fuller Co.’s Empirical Analysis
316 U.S. 143 · 1942
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 194 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. (1950), Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. (1949)
91 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 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
reviewedMilcor Steel Co. v. George A. Fuller Co. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Continental Paper Bag Company v. Eastern Paper Bag Company · Altoona Publix Theatres, Inc. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp. · Mahn v. Harwood · Hailes v. Albany Stove 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 194 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Out of all the possible permutations of elements which can be made from the specifications, he reserves for himself only those contained in the claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“particularly point out and distinctly claim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“through inadvertence, accident or mistake,”
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.