American Stainless Steel Co. v. Ludlum Steel Co.’s Empirical Analysis
290 F. 103 · 1923
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably Pennwalt Corporation, Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Durand-Wayland, Inc., Appellee/cross-Appellant (1987), L-O-F Glass Fibers Co. v. Watson (1955)
16 federal appellate · 11 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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Where men, doubtless weE equipped for a particular sort of work, have hoped and investigated and even prophesied as to what could be done, but never did it, and other men similarly equipped have by intensive study and skilful experiment succeeded, such success commands and should receive a greater meed of inteEeetual appreciation than is accorded even to the cleverness of picking up and utilizing an unconsidered or discarded trifle. When to the scientific triumph of succeeding where other scientists have faEed is added the development of a new branch of industry, the word 'pioneer1 may weE be aeeorded to the patent which describes and defines, even though lamely, the essentials of such success.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We do not go into the exact number of heat degrees above the critical point of ordinary steel, to which steels like defendant’s, or Brearley’s preferred product (minus silicon), must be heated to insure stainlessness, because we do not think the exact number of degrees makes any difference, and are of opinion that such higher degree of heat is very far within the professional knowledge of the metallurgist or steel maker by whose competency these patents are to be judged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“interpreted in the light of what their disclosures would mean to one accustomed to the art of making”
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.