Bowers v. Von Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
63 F. 572 · 1894
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1922
4 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 Loom Company v. Higgins · Miller v. Eagle Manuf'G Co · Reckendorfer v. Faber · Hailes v. Van Wormer · Morley Sewing Machine Co. v. Lancaster
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Consists of a rotary bottomless bucket excavator wheel, of moderate size, novel construction, and great capacity, combined with a hydraulic transporting device of equal capacity, by means of which the spoils may be cheaply carried to a distance of several miles over land or water and across navigable channels, without interruption of navigation, together with novel feeding devices, through which the percentages of earth excavated by the cutting wheel and of the water .therewith delivered are adjustable to the precise amount of each necessary for most economical working, and by means of which clean work is done, the excavator going twice over no ground, and missing no ground; thus saving much time, and effecting a material reduction in the cost of apparatus, repairs, and cost of dredging and of disposing of the spoils, these being the chief objects of the invention.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It enables the action of the dredging machine to be continuous as it swings on a side feed and excavates. This is the essence of the invention, — the new result which was not accomplished before, — and bears the tost of all the definitions of combinations to which I have been cited.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A dredge boat and oscillating section of a conduit discharge flexibly joined to a nonoscillating section, to allow said boat to feed forward, and said oscillating section to swing upon the flexible joint connecting said oscillating and nonoscillating sections.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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