Robins v. Wettlaufer’s Empirical Analysis
81 F.2d 882 · 1936
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2010
4 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 Eibel Process Co. v. Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. · Union Paper-Bag Machine Company v. Murphy · Engineer Co. v. Hotel Astor · Hazeltine Corp. v. A. H. Grebe & Co. · Methudy v. Roy
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ * * * the word “substantially” as used in the patents means so near * * * as to produce and maintain the economies and su-periorities sought after, * * *. “ * * one thing is substantially the same as another, if it performs substantially the same function in substantially the same way to obtain the same result, * * ””
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.