Eckert v. Braun’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Becher v. Contoure Laboratories, Inc. · Hoeltke v. C. M. Kemp Mfg. Co. · Briggs v. United Shoe Machinery Co. · Saco-Lowell Shops v. Reynolds · Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. v. Kalten-Bach
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where diversity of citizenship is lacking, the fact that questions and issues are raised in connection with a patent is not sufficient to invoke the jurisdiction of this court.”
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.