Arnold v. Tyler’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1912
1 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 Morgan v. Daniels · Coffin v. Ogden · 6 App. D.C. 68 - Hisey v. Peters · 7 App. D.C. 64 - Porter v. Louden
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the manufacture of shoes the old wooden last of one solid piece of wood was found to be inconvenient on account of the difficulty of its removal from the shoe in- the different processes to which the latter was required to be subjected and upon its completion. This difficulty, which was caused by the shrinkage of the leather of the shoe, it was sought at first to obviate by the construction of lasts composed-of two or three parts closely fitted together, so as to form one compact last, the parts being a fore part, a heel part, and an intermediate upper part, of which the fore part and the heel part were permanently connected by a hinge of suitable construction, so located near the sole of the last as to permit the heel part to be swung upon it whenever it was desired to shorten the last and release it from the shoe. The intermediate upper -part, which was of wedge shape, was utilized to keep the heel part in operative position when the last was in use. This construction was the subject-matter of a patent issued on January 1, 1889, to one George 33. Smith. “Subsequently it was sought to dispense with the third intermediate part, which was apt to be forced out of place by the pressure upon it, and therefore to fail in effecting its purpose and to permit the last to collapse, and it was found that if the hinge or pivot connecting the fore part with the heel part were placed on or above the line of pressure between the toe of the shoe and the middle of the heel which was the ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fraser v. Duffey““A last comprising a fore part and a heel part connected by a pivot lo enable said parts to have a relative movement for shortening the last, said pivot .being localed in or above the line of pressure between the toe and heel, tending to collapse said last.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fraser v. Duffey
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.