Hull v. Davenport’s Empirical Analysis
90 F.2d 103 · 1937
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Gordon Gould v. Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles H. Townes (1966), Morway v. Bondi (1953)
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 Christie v. Seybold · Courson v. O'Connor · Wilson v. Sherts · Woods v. Poor · Martus & Becker v. Heise
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But we must bear in mind that it was not alone to reward the inventor that the patent monopoly was granted. The public was to get its reward and have the advantage of the inventor's discovery as early as was reasonably possible. See Robinson on Patents, § 385.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We are of the opinion, therefore, that it cannot be logically concluded that the appellant has shown such diligence as the law requires, and the decision of the Board of Appeals is affirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Barton
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.