Imperial Brass Mfg. Co. v. Hackney’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.2d 689 · 1935
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1968
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 De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Co. v. Featherstone · George J. Meyer Mfg. Co. v. Miller Mfg. Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But where the contested issue in the two proceedings (the interference and the infringement suit) is the same,.and the disputed issue of fact is identical, why shouldn’t the determination of the contest in the Patent Office assume well nigh dominating importance in the determination of the infringement suit? Grant that the ruling of the examiner is not res adjudicata — that the finding in the interference contest may be shown to be erroneous —yet the rule applies, namely that where the evidence is practically the same and the issues are identical, and the determination of the issues turns upon the question of veracity, the second trier of fact must of necessity give much weight to the finding of the first trier of fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.