Armstrong v. Langmuir’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.2d 369 · 1925
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1972
6 federal appellate · 4 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 Jones v. Gould · Kelley v. T. L. Smith Co. · Garfield v. Western Electric Co. · Mahr v. Union Pac. R. Co. · Southern Pac. Co. v. Arlington Heights Fruit 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has always been deemed proper, and it is customary, to join such grantors, upon the theory that the decree will cut off any equities which may subsist between them and their grantees, who are the necessary parties. * * * The decree may be of no value to the plaintiffs, but he [the inventor-assignor] cannot complain.” Id. at 371 .”
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.