Smith v. Warnock’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““1. In a structure of the class described, the combination with a cylinder, of a head therefor comprising a pair of superimposed head members, the inner head member having an annular inlet chamber, an annular valve seat on its outer face, a plurality of inlet ports opening into said valve seat, and a plurality of cylinder ports, said head members being formed to inclose between them an annular inlet valve chamber into which the cylinder ports open, the superimposed member being provided with an annular discharge valve seat and a plurality of discharge ports opening into said discharge valve seat and to said inlet valve chamber, and annular disk-like valves disposed on said seats.” ”3. In a structure of the class described, the combination with an open ended cylinder, of a head detachably secured thereto and provided with three su perimposed chambers, the lower chamber constituting an inlet chamber, the upper chamber constituting a discharge valve chamber, and the intermediate chamber constituting an inlet valve chamber, said head being provided with inlet, outlet, and cylinder ports establishing communication between said inlet valve chamber and said inlet chamber, discharge chamber, and cylinder, respectively, and valves for closing the upper ends of said inlet ports and said discharge ports.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Warnock