Young v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The essence of the invention was the provision of new means to accomplish a new result in a new way by a radical departure from the prior art. Iii these circumstances,-the fact that the old George pocket of 1878 might be forced around to a position in which it might receive and hold the prominence of the abdomen instead of that of ,tlie hip bone is immaterial.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Foster Hose Supporter Co. v. O'Brien