In re Smolak’s Empirical Analysis
88 F.2d 838 · 1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2010
2 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 Minerals Separation North American Corp. v. Magma Copper Co. · In re Downs · In re Mosher
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The patent to Perry relates -to a strip shingle in which a substantially homogeneous material is used. In his specification the patentee states that ‘the impressions are in the main or body portion of the construction strips, which has distributed there-through the fibrous material, and which is of a homogeneous material capable of receiving and permanently retaining impressions of the desired sort and not merely in any superficial coating on such strips’; that the depressions or grooves may be either straight or curved, and may be of any desired shape, depth, or width; that, ‘It is, of course, to be understood that in the articles which are the object of my invention the depressions are deep enough to provide of and by themselves the desired appeárance of separate unit shingles or tiles without in any way relying on the use of pigmenting or similar materials of various classes to produce the desired effect.’ After giving various examples, the patentee states that ‘Any other desired form of groove or depression may be used’; -that they may ‘be made by pressing the strip between rolls having projections corresponding to the depressions desired,’ or they may ‘be made by hand or in any other feasible manner’; and that the depressed or corrugated portions, being of increased density due to their having been compressed, act as mechanical strengthening members.’ ” (Italics not quoted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Crabbs
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.