Kavanagh v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
188 F.2d 234 · 1951
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably 163 F. Supp. 614 - Newton v. United States (1958), Bell Intercontinental Corp. v. United States (1967)
25 federal appellate · 4 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 26 U.S.C. § 117
Relies on Waterman v. Mackenzie · United States v. General Electric Co. · Gayler v. Wilder · Moore v. Marsh
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t was entirely lawful for * * * [the grantor] to retain an undivided part or share of his exclusive patent rights.”
2 later decisions 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.