Standard Caster & Wheel Co. v. Caster Socket Co.’s Empirical Analysis
113 F. 162 · 1901
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 1941 · most notably Proudfit Loose Leaf Co. v. Kalamazoo Loose Leaf Binder Co. (1915), D'Arcy v. Staples & Hanford Co. (1908)
21 federal appellate · 7 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 McClain v. Ortmayer · Potts v. Creager · Brown v. Piper · Thompson v. Boisselier · Ansonia Brass & Copper Co. v. Electrical Supply 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It involves no invention to east in one piece an article which had formerly been cast in two pieces and put together, nor to make the shape of the grate correspond with that of the fire pot.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The transfer of a device from one art to another does not amount to invention, where it performs the same function in both without any change of form to adapt it to the new use.””
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.