Rms Electronics, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2020
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 Trans-Atlantic Co. v. United States · 351 F. Supp. 604 - C. J. Tower & Sons of Buffalo, Inc. v. United States · E. Dillingham, Inc. v. United States · C. J. Tower & Sons of Buffalo, Inc. v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(ij) a provision for parts of an article covers a product solely or chiefly used as a part of such article, but does not prevail over a specific provision for such part.”
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.