William C. Elmore v. William F. Schmitt’s Empirical Analysis
278 F.2d 510 · 1960
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Sauquoit Fibers Co. v. Leesona Corp. (1974), Scott v. Finney (1994)
10 federal appellate · 6 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 Romey A. Gaiser v. Cyril S. Linder · Henry St. Pierre v. Draper M. Harvey, Draper M. Harvey v. Henry St. Pierre · Payne v. Hurley · Kruger v. Resnick
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reproduce[ ] the conditions of temperature, vibration, or sustained operation which would usually be encountered in a specific use.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Schmitt urges that Elmore has not indicated any express requirement of a counter in its ultimate use which was not met by the conditions of Steagall’s tests. However, it was incumbent on Schmitt, since he was relying on laboratory tests and seeking an exception to the general rule that tests under actual working conditions are necessary, to show affirmatively that the tests duplicated the essential conditions of some practical use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“accurately duplicate actual working conditions in practical use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. Finney
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.