Natta v. Zletz’s Empirical Analysis
418 F.2d 633 · 1969
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 397 F. Supp. 1146 - Duplan Corporation v. Deering Milliken, Inc. (1974), Hercules Inc. v. Exxon Corp. (1977)
9 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 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 Hickman v. Taylor · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · Lear, Inc. v. Adkins · General Electric Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers · 89 F. Supp. 357 - United States v. United Shoe MacHinery Corporation
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is also immaterial that some of them [letters] refer to technical or public information.”
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.