Scott & Williams, Inc. v. Hemphill Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1952
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 109
Relies on W. S. Tyler Co. v. Ludlow-Saylor Wire Co. · Bowers v. Atlantic, G. & P. Co. · American Electric Welding Co. v. Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co. · Underwood Typewriter Co. v. Fox Typewriter Co.
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.
““Among the machines kept at the New York office is a machine for knitting stockings, of the type claimed to infringe the plaintiff’s patent. The machine is operated with a fair degree of continuity, to demonstrate its ’ advantages to prospective buyers, the stockings made on it being distributed as samples. So far as appears, this is the only infringing machine within this district. The foregoing is a fair summary of the defendant’s local activities. “First, as to acts of infringement within the district. The alleged infringing machine is neither manufactured nor sold here, but it strikes me that it is used here sufficiently to constitute infringement. One of the machines is operated here, both as a demonstration to convince buyers of its merit and as a way of making sample stockings to send out to the trade. This is a ‘use’ of the machine. It is much more than a mere exhibition of an alleged infringing article, which was held in Hoegger v. F. H. Lawson & Co., D.C., 35 F.2d 219 , not to amount to an act of infringement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.