Eck v. Kutz’s Empirical Analysis
132 F. 758 · 1904
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 1933
7 federal appellate · 4 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 Union Paper-Bag Machine Company v. Murphy · Bates v. Coe · Consolidated Fruit-Jar Co. v. Wright · Clark Thread Co. v. Willimantic Linen Co. · Mast, Foos & Co. v. Dempster Mill Manuf'g 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' “With ail this, the operation is essentially unchanged, not only of the whole, but of each part, and that is the significant thing. Except where form is of the essence, it has little weight, and departure from it does not escape infringement where identity of operation is retained.””
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.