Skil Corp. v. Lucerne Products, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2011
1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1338 · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1400 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 35 U.S.C. § 102
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Precision Instrument Mfg Co v. Automotive Maintenance Machinery Co · Walker Process Equipment, Inc. v. Food MacHinery & Chemical 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is small and compact and readily lends itself to mounting within the handle of the tool without causing heating of the handle.”
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.