Earl E. Howe, Plaintiff-Appellant-Appellee v. General Motors Corporation, Defendant-Appellee-Appellant’s Empirical Analysis
401 F.2d 73 · 1968
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 1981
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 282
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Hunt v. Armour & Co. · Skirow v. Roberts Colonial House, Inc. · William S. Cloud, and v. Standard Packaging Corporation, And · Gass v. Montgomery Ward & 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The level of ordinary skill in the field appears to be that of mechanically inclined men with long experience in design of auto accessories”
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.