Crouch v. Roemer’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 797 · 1880
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1946 · most notably United States Industrial Chemical Co. v. Theroz Co. (1928), Lincoln Stores, Inc. v. Nashua Mfg. Co. (1946)
10 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * that ¿one by this inventor was to add to the degree of rigidity which had been used before. The addition of metal or other substance as a stiffener of the known cross-piece, which had already been made rigid in a degree, was not invention. The substantial elements of a well-known structure were thus, in no patentable way, changed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Murray
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.