Eldred v. Kessler’s Empirical Analysis
106 F. 509 · 1900
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1938
2 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Morley Sewing Machine Co. v. Lancaster
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) In an electrical lamp lighter, the combination, with a lamp, the burner of which is formed into or provided with an electrode, an extinguisher formed into or provided with the opposite electrode, and means for establishing and breaking the electrical connection between said electrodes, substantially as set forth.” “(5) In an electrical lamp lighter, the combination, with a lamp, the burner of which is formed into or provided with an electrode, an arm pivotally secured adjacent to the lamp, one end of which is provided with an extinguisher and an electrode, and means for automatically returning the arm to extinguish the light, substantially as set forth.” “(10) In an electric lamp lighter, a lamp, a support therefor, an arm led into proximity to the lamp, provided with an extinguisher, an electric circuit having its electrodes at the adjacent portions of the arm and lamp, said arm and lamp, the one movable in relation to the other, to close said circuit to ignite the lamp, and self-retracting, to extinguish the lamp, said circuit being normally open, substantially as described.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eldred v. Kirkland““The Eastman patent was granted for an ‘electric cigar-lighting lamp,’ and shows a fluid-burning device which differs in form from that of Chambers, but is equally automatic in lighting and extinguishing by electricity, — closely resembling the Hen & Weinmann device, except for this dual feature.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eldred v. Kirkland
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.