Ritchie v. Obdyke’s Empirical Analysis
65 F. 222 · 1894
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
December 1894
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
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Relies on Ritchie v. Obdyke
Most-quoted passages
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““As an improved article of manufacture, a sheet-metal elbow, composed of curved and longitudinally corrugated pieces of metal having only longitudinal seams, whereby the said elbow is free to expand uniformly to avoid twisting, substantially as described.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ritchie v. Obdyke
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