Irons v. Gottschalk’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1992
6 federal appellate ·
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. § 122 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Bristol-Myers Co. v. Federal Trade Commission · American Mail Line, Ltd. v. Gulick · United States v. Newbury Mfg. Co. · Edward S. Irons v. William B. Schuyler, Commissioner of Patents · James B. Clow & Sons, Inc. v. United States Pipe & Foundry 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“available for public inspection and copying”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Irons v. Diamond
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.