Beedle v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 federal appellate · 18 district · 5 state decisions

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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"There is no evidence in ihe record of any use or sale of the invention by Breen before liis application for a patent, and no evidence from which to conclude that any use of any driven well by others before his application was consented to or allowed by him, except in the instances mentioned at Cortland, which were merely experimental tests, made by himself. Much less is there any evidence to show that there was any use of the invention by others for more than (wo years prior to his application.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Swain v. Holyoke Mach. Co.

2. ““As the patent was in force at the time the bill was filed, and the complainants were entitled to a preliminary injunction at that time, the jurisdiction of the court is not defeated by the expiration of the patent by lapse of time before final decree.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. American Sulphite Pulp Co. v. Crown-Columbia Pulp & Paper Co.

3. “of constructing wells by driving or forcing an instrument into the ground until it is projected into the water, without removing the earth upward as it is in boring, substantially as herein described;”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Andrews v. Hovey