Air Devices, Inc. v. Air Factors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
210 F.2d 481 · 1954
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1974
6 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 Westinghouse v. Boyden Power Brake Co. · Cimiotti Unhairing Company v. American Fur Refining Company · Computing Scale Company of America v. Automatic Scale Company · Leishman v. Associated Wholesale Electric 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““disclosed by prior patents of devices prevailing in public use or known to the public.” Air Devices, Inc. v. Air Factors, Inc., et al., 9 Cir., 210 F.2d 481, 482 .”
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.