Smith v. Macbeth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““In the defendant’s machine the armatures are rotated by pulling upward with increased velocity a bar attached to the end of a lever pivoted on a shaft, and moving a toothed segment meshed in the pinion. The switch in the condensing circuit is opened by a stud on a cam pivoted on the same shaft with the lever, which lifts a latch, and lots a spring move it, as the operating bar reaches its upward limit, and the electricity is accumulated to its greatest intensity, and the current is thereby sent by the working circuit to the fuses.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. Macbeth

2. ““(1) The combination, with the operating device of the rotary armature of a dynamo-magneto-electric machine, of a bridge or switch arranged in the condensing circuit of said machine, and in the path of said operating device, and adapted to be opened by direct impingement of said device thereupon, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. Macbeth