Cluett v. Claflin’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““What then was left for Oluett to invent? Nothing, apparently, hut a separate line of stitches through the binding attaching the bosom to the shirt. But whether a separate line of stitches shall be used for this purpose, or whether such stitches shall pass through the binding or inside of it, is obviously a question of mere convenience, involving nothing which, under a most liberal construction, could be held to be an exercise of the inventive faculty. * >s * \y(i think this- case must be added to the already long list of those reported in the decisions of this court wherein the patentee has sought to obtain the monopoly of a large manufacture by a trifling deviation from ordinary and accepted methods.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ypsilanti Dress-Stay Manuf'g Co. v. Van Valkenburg

2. ““In combination .with a shirt body, a shirt bosom bound on the outer edge with a folded and stitched binding, and attached to the shirt body by a separate line of stitching through such binding.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ypsilanti Dress-Stay Manuf'g Co. v. Van Valkenburg