Roemer v. Peddie’s Empirical Analysis
132 U.S. 313 · 1889
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 28 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Westinghouse v. Boyden Power Brake Co. (1898), Altoona Publix Theatres, Inc. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp. (1935)
62 federal appellate · 28 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 White v. Dunbar · Mahn v. Harwood · Railway Company v. Sayles · Shepard v. Carrigan · Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Company v. Davis
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a patentee, on the rejection of his application, inserts in his specification, in consequence, limitations and restrictions for the purpose of obtaining his patent, he cannot, after he has obtained it, claim that it shall be construed as it would have been construed if such limitations and restrictions were not contained in it.”
8 later decisions 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.