Richards & Conover Co. v. Leishman’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.2d 365 · 1948
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1968
8 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
Relies on Hollister v. Benedict Burnham Manuf'G · Callison v. Dean · Leishman v. Associated Wholesale Electric Co. · Leishman v. Associated Wholesale Electric Co. · Turner v. Goldstein
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to rise to the dignity of invention, the conception of a patent must be the result of the exercise of the inventive or creative faculty, not of mere mechanical skill. 28”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.