Union Hardware Co. v. Selchow’s Empirical Analysis
112 F. 1006 · 1901
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1938
6 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.
Relationships
Relies on Julia Hotchkiss Executrix of John Hotchkiss Deceased John Davenport and John Quincy v. Miles Greenwood · Florsheim v. Schilling · Hicks v. Kelsey · George Frost Co. v. Cohn · Kilbourne v. W. Pingham Co.
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.
““Where the inventor has discovered new and unknown properties residing in a given material, or that a long sought for result, which has baffled an army of skilled artisans, can be achieved by the change, in such cases the substitution of one material for another may reach the piare of invention. But substitution alone, unaccompanied by any actual advance in the art or genuine benefit to the public, has uniformly been held insufficient to support a patent.””
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.