Vacuum Engineering Co. v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
209 F. 219 · 1913
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1957
7 federal appellate · 5 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 Westinghouse Mach. Co. v. General Electric Co. · Vacuum Engineering Co. v. Dunn · Vacuum Cleaner Co. v. Dunn
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““His application was confidential; the public could not seo it or be informed oí' its contents until patent issued upon it. Before that date came Locke & Dunn with their application.””
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.