Jozef Sikora v. Edward J. Brenner, Commissioner of Patents’s Empirical Analysis
379 F.2d 134 · 1967
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 1999 · most notably State Highway Commission of Missouri v. Volpe (1973), El-Fadl v. Central Bank (1996)
21 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on Dann v. Studebaker-Packard Corp. · Lennerth v. Mendenhall · Aktiebolaget Bofors v. United States · Beeler v. United States · Moore v. Coats 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The District Court’s jurisdiction was established by the allegations of operative facts bringing the controversy within the scope of the statute conferring jurisdiction on the court. The court’s jurisdiction was neither dependent upon nor removable by any reference to or recitation of a statute in the allegations.” 379 F.2d at 136 .”
2 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.