39 App. D.C. 122 - Lederer v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1952
6 federal appellate · 1 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 Mason v. Hepburn · 29 App. D.C. 388 - Burson v. Vogel · 13 App. D.C. 111 - Warner v. Smith · In re Appeal of Mower · McBerty v. Cook
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When reduction to practice has been satisfactorily shown, and there is no •unreasonable or unexplained delay, there is no law that would bar the first or original inventor of his right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bijur v. Bendix
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.