Chicago Lock Co. v. Tratsch’s Empirical Analysis
72 F.2d 482 · 1934
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 1978
14 federal appellate · 2 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 Union Paper-Bag Machine Company v. Murphy · D'Arcy Spring Co. v. Marshall Ventilated Mattress Co. · United States Ozone Co. v. United States Ozone Co. of America · Adam v. Folger · Western Electric Co. v. Sperry Electric 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all the elements of the combination, or their mechanical equivalents, should be found in a single patent or description, where they do substantially the same work by substantially the same means,”
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.