Robertson v. General Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.2d 495 · 1929
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2017
4 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 32
Relies on United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · James Foster v. David Neilson · The Fisheries Products Company, Receivers of the Fisheries Products Company v. Abraham S. See & Depew, Inc. · Cherokee Tobacco · Hijo v. United States
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is, consequently, to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself, without the aid of any legislative provision. But when the terms of the stipulation import a contract — when either of the parties engages to perform a particular act, the treaty addresses itself to the political, not the judicial department ; and the legislature must execute the contract, before it can become a rule for the court.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.