Hedenskoog v. Backus’s Empirical Analysis
48 F.2d 408 · 1931
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1959
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 · Townsend v. Smith · Miller v. Hayman · Vanore v. Improta · Smith v. Brooks
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.
““The main contention of appellant here is that the 1920 machine, not being complete so as to properly set a full complement of pins, and later being dismantled and nothing further having been done to the machine until after appellant’s application had been filed, must be looked upon as an abandoned experiment. * * * “Appellant seems to base his right to priority mainly upon the proposition that the tests of appellee’s 1920 structure showed that it was admittedly an unsatisfactory machine from a commercial standpoint. “Agreeable to the finding of the board we conclude that, as affects the counts in this case and the issue as presented, the noisy character of the machine which rendered it commercially unsatisfactory is not a sufficient basis to j'ustify a conclusion that the 1920 machine was not a reduction to practice. The machine was demonstrably proven to operate in setting the pins in the manner called for in the counts. The necessary details of improvement in order to make it commercially desirable are matters with which we are not concerned.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Archer v. Papa
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.