Robbins v. Steinbart’s Empirical Analysis
57 F.2d 378 · 1932
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1999
2 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 Loom Company v. Higgins · Deibel v. Heise & Schumacher · Standard Cartridge Co. v. Peters Cartridge Co. · Hayden v. Manning · Oldroyd v. Morgan
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think that the features of the Steinbart device responsible for its alleged inoperativeness could have been corrected without the exercise of inventive skill.””
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.