Field v. Stow’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.2d 1072 · 1931
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1969 · most notably Field v. Stow (1931), Atherton v. Payne (1932)
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 Field v. Stow
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are unable to agree with the conclusion reached by the Patent Office tribunals. “Appellant had the right to expressly limit his patent claim, as he did, to a floor supported on sill flanges. “The language 'a floor supported on sill flanges/ in our opinion, means a floor in contact with the upper surfaces of the sill flanges. Had the count defined a floor supported by sill flanges, it would have been sufficiently comprehensive to cover a floor in contact with either the upper or the lower surfaces of the flanges.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Atherton v. Payne
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.