In re Hargraves’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.2d 900 · 1931
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 1999 · most notably In re Dembiczak (1999), Carman Industries, Inc. v. Wahl (1983)
12 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 Miller v. Eagle Manuf'G Co · Agawam Company v. Jordan · Mitchell v. Tilghman · H. C. White Co. v. Morton E. Converse & Son Co. · In re Walter
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. [D]ouble patenting exists if the feature in which the novel esthetic effect resides is the identical feature which produces the novel function so that a structure embodying the mechanical invention would of necessity embody the design, and vice versa.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.