In re Coffield’s Empirical Analysis
270 F. 695 · 1921
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1947
4 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 Loom Company v. Higgins · Re Harbeck
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The idea here developed is in the twilight zone between invention and mere mechanical improvement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We will apply the rule of the courts generally and resolve the doubt in favor of the inventor.””
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.