Lyon v. Boh’s Empirical Analysis
10 F.2d 30 · 1926
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1975
9 federal appellate · 10 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 Lyon Non-Skid Co. v. Edward V. Hartford, Inc. · Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Co. v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal · Chester N. Weaver, Inc. v. American Chain 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The automobile buffer comprising horizontally yielding and substantially vertically rigid elements including transversely extending impact receiving members and open-ended lateral loops, connected attaching members to be attached to the vehicle, connecting means connecting said impact-receiving members and holding them against substantial relative vertical movement and means providing for the lateral adjustment.of said attaching members to adapt them for attachment to parts of vehicles located at different distances apart.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We think that the great merit of his invention is that he first thought out what may be called an all-spring buffer, something that would resiliently resist severe strains, and on release regain approximately its original form, although the strain were applied in center, or either end, or anywhere between. The means for utilizing this mental conception is essentially the open-ended loops extending over and in front of the wheels.””
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.