Leggett v. Avery’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 256 · 1879
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2010 · most notably Altoona Publix Theatres, Inc. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp. (1935), Schriber-Schroth Co. v. Cleveland Trust Co. (1940)
56 federal appellate · 10 district ·
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.
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We consider it extremely doubtful whether reissued letters can be sustained in any case where they contain claims that have once been formally disclaimed by the patentee, or rejected with his acquiescence, and he has consented to such rejection in order to obtain his letters patent. Under such circumstances, the rejection of the claim can in no Just sense be regarded as a matter of inadvertence or mistake. Even though it was such, the applicant should seem to be estopped from setting it up on an application for a reissue.” 101 U. S. 256 , 259, 260, 25 L. Ed. 865 .”
4 later decisions 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.