14 App. D.C. 477 - Fowler v. Dodge’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1952
1 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 11 App. D.C. 592 - Dodge v. Fowler
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would serve no good purpose to supplement the opinion of the primary examiner in this ease with another opinion on the same question of operativeness. The controversy is reduced to a very narrow compass. The examiner of interferences, in the first instance, held the device to be operative. The board of examiners and the Commissioner suggested, rather than expressed, doubt, but proceeded to decide the cause upon the assumption of operativeness. Now again it has been referred to the proper officer, the expert of the office, to examine into this precise question anew; and he holds the device to be operative. Certainly, the preponderance of testimony is in favor of the operativeness of the device; and it is not usual for the courts to disturb the conclusions of the Patent Office upon any such question as that without very cogent proof of error. We find no such proof in this ease.” ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gleason v. Dosch
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.