Becket v. Coe’s Empirical Analysis
98 F.2d 332 · 1937
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 1974 · most notably Dewey & Almy Chemical Co. v. Mimex Co. (1942), California Research Corp. v. Ladd (1966)
12 federal appellate · 14 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 Carson v. American Smelting & Refining Co. · Skelly Oil Co. v. Universal Oil Products Co. · American Stainless Steel Co. v. Ludlum Steel Co. · General Electric Co. v. Hoskins Mfg. Co. · Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. v. Great Northern Ry. 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““9. A stain-resisting iron-base alloy having deep-drawing properties and comprising from about 16% to about 22% of chromium; about 0.25% to about 2.75% of copper; carbon, the carbon content being not more than about 0.3%; at least about 3% of manganese and at least about 2% of nickel, the sum of the maganese and nickel percentages falling between about 6%'and about 14%; the balance of the alloy being substantially iron.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Patentability of an alloy upon the basis of new proportions of old elements requires that the new proportions give a new result; either a new alloy, or an old alloy with new characteristics which result in entirely new, or substantially enhanced, qualities of utility.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnsen v. Brenner“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 majoritye.g. Kelley v. Coe
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.