Hall v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
240 F.2d 787 · 1957
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Bergman v. Aluminum Lock Shingle Corp. of America (1957), Gaudiosi v. Mellon (1959)
19 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
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 Precision Instrument Mfg Co v. Automotive Maintenance Machinery Co · Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. · Fashion Originators' Guild of America, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Schriber-Schroth Co. v. Cleveland Trust Co. · Pecheur Lozenge Co. v. National Candy 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question of novelty and invention of a patented device or method is a question of fact”
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.