Hayes v. Seton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate ·

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.

1. ““I am unable, therefore, upon the testimony, to find that this claim has been infringed, unless it be held that the construction of the gutters so as to keep them under cover of the bases is not an essential feature of the invention. But if it be so held, then I must hold the claim void for want of novelty.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hayes v. Dayton

2. ““A metallic ridge-box capable of being used as a ventilator, so constructed as to admit of an ingress of pure air, which comes in contact with the impure air of the building, is driven into an upper cavity, which, being perforated, gives the egress.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Colorado Tent & Awning Co. v. Parks

3. “. ' “The subject-matter of the sixth claim of this reissue is not found in the structures claimed to be infringing structures. In those structures there is but one set of openings, and those from the gutter directly to the outside. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hayes v. Dayton