Hobbs v. Wisconsin Power & Light Co.’s Empirical Analysis
250 F.2d 100 · 1957
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently April 1976 · most notably McCullough Tool Co. v. Well Surveys, Inc. (1965), Armour & Co. v. Wilson & Co. (1960)
59 federal appellate · 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 Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. · Eibel Process Co. v. Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. · Lincoln Engineering Co of Illinois v. Stewart-Warner Corporation · Elizabeth v. Pavement 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A use for experimental purposes is not a public use ‘if it is conducted in good faith for the purpose of testing the qualities of the invention and for no other purpose not naturally incident to that.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this court, under Rule 52(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A. must make due allowance for the advantages possessed by the trial court in resolving any conflicting testimony, reversing only clearly erroneous findings 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.