Pullman Inc. v. ACF Industries Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
393 F.2d 83 · 1968
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1982
7 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
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Eibel Process Co. v. Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. · Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · Smith v. Nichols · Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. United States Plywood Corp.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) change only in form, proportions, or degree ... is not such invention as will sustain a patent.”
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.