Bickford v. John E. Mitchell Co.’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.2d 540 · 1979
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2009
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island v. Wingate Corp. · Hannah v. Larche · Snodgrass v. Nelson · United States v. Santibanez
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contract relating to the purchase or sale of goods”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“claims of alleged deficiencies in the payment of royalties and alleged failure to reconvey patent and trademark rights”
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.