Sinclair & Carroll Co. v. Interchemical Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
325 U.S. 327 · 1945
Citation profile
485 federal appellate · 149 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,067 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation (1971), Deposit Guaranty National Bank v. Roper (1980)
485 federal appellate · 149 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
reviewedInterchemical Corp. v. Sinclair & Carroll Co. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cuno Engineering Corporation v. Automatic Devices Corporation · Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States · Slawson v. Grand Street Railroad · Saranac Automatic Mach Corporation v. Wirebounds Patents Co
Cited together with Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. · Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Cuno Engineering Corporation v. Automatic Devices Corporation · Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Lincoln Engineering Co of Illinois v. Stewart-Warner 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 1,067 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“validity has the greater public importance.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * Reading a list and selecting a known compound to meet known requirements is no more ingenious than selecting the last piece to put into the last opening in a jig-saw puzzle. It is not invention.”
4 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.