Baier v. Comm'r’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2017
3 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 Parham v. Cortese · Golsen v. Commissioner · United States v. Gilmore · Golsen v. Commissioner · Woodward v. Commissioner
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“7. (Employee) agrees that he will forthwith disclose and assign to the Company all discoveries, processes and inventions made or conceived in whole or in part by him . . . during his employment, relative to or useful in any business carried on by the Company . . . and the said discoveries, processes and inventions shall become and remain the property of the Company . . . . Upon request of the Company . . . the (employee) agrees to make application . . . for letters patent of the United States and of any other countries where obtainable, on said discoveries, processes and inventions, and forthwith to assign all such applications and the letters patent thereon to the Company . . . . 4 "8. Under the provisions of the Executive Committee Circular No. 605 . . . employees of the Company making inventions in the course of their employment useful in the business of the Company, may derive certain benefits therefrom in accordance with the terms and conditions in said circular set forth; but the granting of such benefits is discretionary with the Company and the provisions of such circular are subject to withdrawal or change without notice.”
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.