Hoover Co. v. Coe’s Empirical Analysis
325 U.S. 79 · 1945
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 36 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk (1962), Brenner v. Manson (1966)
96 federal appellate · 36 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Butterworth v. United States ex rel. Hoe · Hill v. Wooster · Gandy v. Marble · United States Baldwin Co v. Robertson
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[In an action under 35 U.S.C. Sec. 63, the predecessor to section 145,] a formal trial is afforded on proof which may include evidence not presented in the Patent Office.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n applicant dissatisfied with the decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in an appeal under section 134(a) of this title may ... have remedy by civil action against the Director in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.... The court may adjudge that such applicant is entitled to receive a patent for his invention, as specified in any of his claims involved in the decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, as the facts in the case may appear....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gould v. Quigg · Mazzari v. Rogan“[were] alternative remedies resulting in the same sort of relief so far as concerns the further prosecution of the application in the Patent Office.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.