Conway v. White’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.2d 863 · 1925
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2000
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
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 Loom Company v. Higgins · Expanded Metal Co. v. Bradford · Littlefield v. Perry · Hennessy v. Bacon · Hennessey v. Woolworth
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It [the contract] was not an agreement to assign in gross the defendant's future labor as an inventor, but only the inventions and discoveries made during the term of his employment, and which in any way might affect the articles manufactured by the company, and which were used or capable of being used in the business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(I)f a party to a contract accepts payments due under it at other times than those contracted for, he thereby waives his right to insist upon a forfeiture for the failure to make the payment and strict accordance with the terms of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“during the term of his employment, which in any way may affect any articles manufactured by”
1 later decision 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.