Smith v. Nevin’s Empirical Analysis
73 F.2d 940 · 1934
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1970
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 Corona Cord Tire Co. v. Dovan Chemical Corp. · Clark Thread Co. v. Willimantic Linen Co. · Payne v. Hurley · 29 App. D.C. 4 - Wickers v. McKee · Halbleib v. Bendix
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * If Marzocchi did not consider the test successful, this Board cannot be called upon, at a later date, to give this test a status which the inventor did not attribute to it at that time; Smith v. Nevin, 22 CCPA 748, 73 F.2d 940, 452 OG 469, 23 USPQ 353, 357.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.