In re Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
263 F. 646 · 1920
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently December 1972 · most notably 352 F. Supp. 1357 - Mueller Brass Co. v. Reading Industries, Inc. (1972), In re Schmidt (1961)
13 federal appellate · 2 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 Smith v. Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Co. · Godfrey v. Eames · 33 App. D.C. 430 - Lemp v. Randall · American Casting Mach. Co. v. Pittsburgh Coal Washer 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To prevent a possible failure of .iustice, tbe present application should have been considered as a continuation of tbe abortive application. As already suggested, we perceive no reason wby tbe mistake could not have been rectified by a simple amendment, but in any event tbe sole inventor should not be deprived of his day in court by tbe raising of artificial barriers against him. He claimed his invention, and, through mistake, gave his son credit where no credit was due. The elimination of the son ought not to deprive the father, the sole inventor, of the benefit of his original application; and we so rule.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Briggs v. Kaisling““It perhaps is unnecessary to add that a party who seeks to correct his own mistake must act with reasonable diligence, and also assume the burden of establishing his good faith.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Manny v. Garlick
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.