American Bell Telephone Co. v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
8 F. 509 · 1881
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
January 1897
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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Relies on O'Reilly v. Morse
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““My present invention consists in the employment of a vibratory or undulatory current of electricity in contradistinction to a merely intermittent or pulsatory current, and of a method of and apparatus for producing electrical undulations upon the line wire.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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