In Re Phylliss B. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Elmer Hth v. Icc Fabricating Inc (1995), Tone Brothers, Inc. v. Sysco Corporation, Defendant/cross-Appellant (1994)
5 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 International Silver Co. v. Pomerantz
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f... the design is changed, the result is a new and different design; the original design remains just what it was. Design patents have almost no scope.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that display at the trade show was not a public use, and that the showing of the table embodying the design was”
2 later decisions 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.