Lemley v. Dobson-Evans Co.’s Empirical Analysis
243 F. 391 · 1917
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1940
10 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 Loom Company v. Higgins · Bates v. Coe · Automatic Weighing Mach. Co. v. Pneumatic Scale Corp. · Ohmer Fare Register Co. v. Ohmer · Pope Manuf'G Co v. Gormully Jeffery Manuf'G 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was not the original and first in ventor or discoverer of any material and substantial part of the thing patented.”
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.