Wall v. Leck’s Empirical Analysis
61 F. 291 · 1894
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1939
3 federal appellate ·
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 Blessing Et Al. v. Works. · Kaolatype Engraving Co. v. Hoke
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Are the original and first discoverers and inventors of a new and useful process for tlie fumigation of trees and other plants, which consists in fumigating with hydrocyanic acid gas, in the absence, substantially, of the actinic rays of light”; that they obtained a patent from the United States patent office for their discovery, “which patented process had not boon known, used, or published prior to the said discovery and application of your orators; * * * that the said fumigating process of your orators wás designed to destroy, and when performed in the manner set forth in (heir said application and in their said letters patent does destroy, the scale insects of certain destructive species or varieties commonly infesting or living on citrus fruit trees and other plants, and effectively rids said trees and plants (so fumigated) of such insects, so as to greatly benefit said trees and plants, and thereby produce great benefits and profits to the owner thereof, and when so used does not injure the plant or tree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wall v. Leck
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.