DeGroff v. Roth’s Empirical Analysis
412 F.2d 1401 · 1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1997
3 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 Agawam Company v. Jordan · Ronay v. Hediger
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.
“a normally applied brake for said shaft, * * * [a valve] control lever upon initial depression cooperating with said brake to release the same and thereafter upon further pressure to open said control valve in proportion to the degree of pressure applied to said control lever * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Roth“However, the disclosure was of such lever as a throttle only and not as a control for a brake also, much less as a means for providing the particular cooperative relationship of throttle and brake defined in the counts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Roth“enabled an ordinary mechanic, without the exercise of any ingenuity and special skill on his part, to construct and put the improvement in successful operation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.