In re Williams’s Empirical Analysis
36 F.2d 436 · 1929
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1951
1 federal appellate ·
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 Smith v. Nichols · In re Marshutz · Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. v. Pittsburgh Transformer Co. · Linde Air Products Co. v. Morse Dry Dock & Repair Co. · Kil-Nock Co. v. Chicago Plating Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“: “There is no invention in changing the size and proportion of a device or machine so long as the construction and mode Of operation remain the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Ness
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.