Converse v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““■With our rapid progress in mechanical improvements, what an Ingenious man fails to accomplish to-day. with the appliances now at hand, another ingenious man may accomplish to-morrow, with the better appliances which ke then finds; and, if the latter acts from his own resources, he is not to be deprived of the fruits of his ingenuity by reason of the prior failure of to-day, although, without taking into account the change in appliances, it may be difficult to understand why and wherein one failed and the other succeeded.’'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dalby v. Lynes

2. ““There is no equity nor public policy which requires that one should he deprived of his jnst reward who revives a. lost art, wild her buried for ages or for only a few years, although with the latter there is, of course, more necessity for making sure that the revival was not suggested by ihe knowledge of wlmt had apparently disappeared.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dalby v. Lynes