Downs v. Andrews’s Empirical Analysis
25 F.2d 218 · 1928
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1963
4 federal appellate · 3 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 29 App. D.C. 388 - Burson v. Vogel · 25 App. D.C. 77 - Gallagher v. Hien · 27 App. D.C. 522 - Lowrie v. Taylor · Franklin Knitting Mills, Inc. v. Kassman & Kessner, Inc. · Funk v. Whitely
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * If the operative means accomplishes the desired end, reduction to practice is established, although it appears on inspection that the elements of the device should have been made stronger, or given a better shape, arrangement, or adjustment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buchanan v. Lademann
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.