Fitz v. Leadam’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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When the complainant’s tree is in place in the shoe, the link has only a longitudinal thrust. The tree is then expected to conform to itself all parts of the shoe, but the link has only a longitudinal thrust. The tree, under the influence of this thrust, is expected to fill out the shoe. This is because the link is merely a connection between parts lying substantially in the same horizontal plane. But the defendant’s tree is not expected to fill all parts of the shoe, nor is the sole reliance upon a longitudinal thrust. The effort is to drive into the toe of the shoe a form, and the toggle, when pressed down, not only drives the toe forward, but also upward. The complainant’s tree drives forward but does not push upward.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Leadam v. Ringgold & Co.