Clough v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 166 · 1882
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably Pennwalt Corporation, Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Durand-Wayland, Inc., Appellee/cross-Appellant (1987), Morley Sewing Machine Co. v. Lancaster (1889)
38 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 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.
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“hold as infringements all valve regulations, applied to such a combination, which perform the same office in substantially the same way as, and were known equivalents for, his form of valve regulation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The testimony * * * amounts really to this only: that if that burner is used now in a way it which it was never designed to be used, and it is not shown to have ever been used before Clough’s invention, it may be made to furnish a supplementary.supply of gas. * * * Any further raising of the tube was accidental, and not a part of the law of the structure. * * The structure was not designed for the same purpose as Clough’s, no person looking at it or using it would understand that it was to be used in the way Clough’s is used, and it is not shown to have been really used and operated in that way.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In combination with the bat-wing' burner, perforated at the base, and surrounding-tube, the tubular valve for regulating the supply of external gas to the burner, substantially as described.”
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.