Edwards v. Johnston Formation Testing Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
56 F.2d 49 · 1932
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 1971
18 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 Railway Company v. Sayles · Kokomo Fence Machine Co. v. Kitselman
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a patentee who is only a narrow improver has a monopoly restricted to his own improvement”
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.