Townsend v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
36 F.2d 292 · 1929
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Field v. Knowles (1950), Smith v. Bousquet (1940)
7 federal appellate · 5 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 Bates v. Coe · Mason v. Hepburn · 11 App. D.C. 264 - Mergenthaler v. Scudder · Greenawalt v. Dwight · 26 App. D.C. 336 - Rolfe v. Hoffmann
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is therefore the formation in the mind of the inventor of a definite and permanent idea of the complete and operative invention as it is thereafter to be applied in practice that constitutes an available conception within the meaning of the patent law. A priority of conception is established when the invention is made sufficiently plain to enable those skilled in the art to understand it.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Tansel · In re Jolley“that it must clearly and affirmatively appear that there has been some oversight, or mistake, or wrong construction of material facts ... to justify this court in reversing the decision appealed from”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in their views as to what this evidence shows”
2 later decisions 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.