Thum v. Andrews’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate ·

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(3) As a new article of manufacture, tlie fly paper, with adhesive faces placed together, so as to be packed without folding, and adapted to be separated when ready for usé, substantially as described.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Andrews v. Thum

2. ““A sheet of fly paper partially covered with a sticky composition, the latter being surrounded with a band or margin of less, but still slightly, adhesive material.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Andrews v. Thum