McNamara v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2003
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 United States v. Dubilier Condenser Corp. · Schuylkill Fuel Corp. v. B. & C. Nieberg Realty Corp. · Smith v. Bolles · Hill v. Wooster · Adamson v. Gilliland
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plaintiff is entitled to recover the [attorney’s] fees and expenses expended and incurred by him in defending his right to the invention and to letters patent thereon”), is not challenged by Nygard on this appeal, and we express no opinion on it. . The Heavenly Appellants are”
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.