Lepper v. Randall’s Empirical Analysis
113 F. 627 · 1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1925
2 federal appellate · 2 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 Bundy Mfg. Co. v. Detroit Time-Register Co. · Boston & R. Electric St. Ry. Co. v. Bemis Car-Box Co. · Societe Anonyme Usine J. Cleret v. Rehfuss · Hillborn v. Hale & Kilburn Manuf'g Co. · Lepper v. Randall
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In no ease is a patentee to be denied protection commensurate with the scope of his actual and distinctly described and claimed invention, by wholly excluding him from the benefit of the doctrine of equivalents.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Queen & Co. v. Green““The departure made by the defendant from the patent in suit is merely formal, and of such character as to suggest that it is a studied evasion of those described in the claim in issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Queen & Co. v. Green
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.