Bradley v. Eccles’s Empirical Analysis
126 F. 945 · 1903
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1959
4 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 Rowe v. Blodgett & Clapp Co. · Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. v. Triumph Electric Co. · Bradley v. Eccles · Bradley v. Eccles
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Patents for designs are intended to apply to matters of ornamentation, in which the utility depends upon ilie pleasing effect imparted to the eye, and not upon any hew function. Design patents refer to appearance, not utility. Their object is to encourage works of art and decoration which appeal to the eye. and the esthetic emotions, and the beautiful. A, horseshoe calk is a mere bit of iron or steel, not intended for display, but for an obscure use.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Pieces of rawhide, cloth, or leather of any description, placed in the spherical recesses beneath the wrist or knuckle of the thill or pole, and also above before the draft eye is closed and fastened, will form a sort of substitute for the packing described. So pieces of flat leather so plkced, the one piece above and the other piece below, if cut of the right size arid thickness, will constitute an inferior substitute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bradley v. Eccles““TJio combination with a draft-eye having spherical recesses in its jaws and a draft-iron having a spherical knuckle, of an interposed spherical packing provided with an open longitudinal joint along its side and with truncated ends at the ends of said joint, said packing enveloping' the knuckle entirely and separating the same from the spherical bearing-surfaces of the surrounding draft-eye, substantially as set forth.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bradley v. Eccles
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.