Oil Conservation Engineering Co. v. Brooks Engineering Co.’s Empirical Analysis
52 F.2d 783 · 1931
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably Coats Loaders & Stackers, Inc. v. Henderson (1956), Celite Corp. v. Dicalite Co. (1938)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 American Malting Co. v. Keitel · Adriance, Platt & Co. v. National Harrow Co. · A. B. Farquhar Co. v. National Harrow Co. · Emack v. Kane · Alliance Securities Co. v. De Vilbiss Mfg. 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notices to the competitor that he is infringing, and perhaps to the manufacturer for the competitor, and to a limited number of his chief customers, are the normal procedure and not to be condemned, when characterized by good faith.”
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.