H. D. Smith & Co. v. Peck’s Empirical Analysis
262 F. 415 · 1919
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 1950
13 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 Washburn Moen Manuf'G Co v. Beat 'Em All Barbed-Wire Co · Topliff v. Topliff · Hobbs v. Beach · O'Rourke Engineering Const. Co. v. McMullen · Barry v. Harpoon Castor Mfg. 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the structure involves invention is a question of fact, and the determining factor is not whether the achievement is difficult or easy, but whether it has, in point of fact,- given the world something of real value, that it did not have — a benefit conferred upon mankind. O’Rourke Engineering Const. Co. v. McMullen et al., 160 F. 933 , 88 C. C. A. 115 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Symonds
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.