Switzer v. Marzall’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 1960
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roemer v. Simon · Carson v. American Smelting & Refining Co. · Becket v. Coe · Skelly Oil Co. v. Universal Oil Products Co. · In re Ek
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The disclosure of a foreign patent is to be measured not by what may be made out of it, but what is clearly and definitely expressed in it.””
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.