30 App. D.C. 417 - De Ferranti v. Lyndmark’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2008
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
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 United States v. Conrad Heinszen C · Sohn v. Waterson · State of Louisiana Folsom v. Mayor Etc of the City of New Orleans · National Bank v. County of Yankton · Board of Sup'rs of Grenada Co v. Brown
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in a patent, no vested right of which the applicant cannot be deprived is acquired under the preliminary proceedings leading up to its issuance. The condition, however, is different after the patent is issued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brenner v. Ebbert
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.