Preston v. Manard’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 661 · 1886
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1957 · most notably Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. (1950), Bergman v. Aluminum Lock Shingle Corp. of America (1957)
19 federal appellate · 3 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 Guidet v. Brooklyn
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The requisite diameter of tiie reel, and its proportion to the size of the hose, are not defined in the specification, but are left to be ascertained by experiment, or from general knowledge. If the patentee had discovered anything new in the size or proportions of the reel, requisite to allow the water to flow through the hose, he should have described it with such precision as to enable others to construct the apparatus.””
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.