Application of Eslie B. Hummer’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1973
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 Application of McKenna · Application of Pappas · Application of Demarche · In re Tamarin
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Progress is as important * * * in crowded arts as well as those which are in the pioneer stage * * and such progress is usually made in small increments.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * one of the oldest known to man and it can aptly be described as ‘crowded.’ ” In re Hummer, 241 F.2d 742 , 44 CCPA 814.”
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.