Fay v. Cordesman’s Empirical Analysis
109 U.S. 408 · 1883
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 24 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2006 · most notably Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. (1995), Shepard v. Carrigan (1886)
81 federal appellate · 24 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.
Relationships
Relies on Gage v. Herring · Water-Meter Company v. Desper
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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The claims of the patents sued on in this case are claims 'for combinations. In such a claim, if the patentee specifies any element as entering into the combination, either directly by the language of the claim, or by such a reference to the descriptive part of the specification as carries such element into the claim, he makes such element material to the combination, and the court cannot declare it to be immaterial. It is his province to make his own claim and his privilege to restrict it. If it be a claim to a combination, and be restricted to specified elements, all must be regarded as material, leaving open only the question whether an omitted part is supplied by an equivalent device or instrumentality.””
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“, in combination with the lower arbor bearing, said, frame being constructed as herein described, and with a depression, A'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“, with the lower arbor bearing, when the frame is constructed with a depression, A'”
1 later decision 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.