Robinson v. Sutter’s Empirical Analysis

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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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The distinctive feature of complainants’ device for resweating tobacco is the water tank in the bottom of their outer chamber, so that, by keeping this water at the proper temperature, the atmosphere of the outer chamber can be kept warm and humid, whereby the process of resweating will be induced and carried' on to whatever extent shall be deemed desirable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sutter v. Robinson

2. “As for the Iluse patent of 1865, it was only a box heated with steam-coils, hr which the tobacco was to be placed and heated by the radiation'of heat from the pipes and the introduction of live steam.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sutter v. Robinson