Simmons v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
117 F.2d 49 · 1941
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2005
6 federal appellate ·
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 Corona Cord Tire Co. v. Dovan Chemical Corp. · Grinnell Washing Mach Co v. E E Johnson Co · Electric Storage Battery Co. v. Shimadzu · Concrete Appliances Co. v. Gomery · Brush v. Condit
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mere fact that the earlier invention was not the subject of patent is not material, nor is it material that the inventor may have been ignorant of the anticipatory invention. The invention, however, must have been known to the public, or there must have been an opportunity to acquire such knowledge as would enable one skilled in the art to reproduce it without exercising further invention of his own.” Simmons v. Hansen, 117 F.2d 49, 51 (8 Cir. 1941).”
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.