Nathan v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
143 F. 889 · 1906
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1952
9 federal appellate · 8 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 Winans v. Adam Edward and Talbot Denmead · Bundy Mfg. Co. v. Detroit Time-Register Co. · King Ax Co. v. Hubbard
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Neither the joinder of two elements into one integral part accomplishing the purpose of both and no more, nor the separation of one integral part into two, together doing precisely or substantially what was done by the single element, will evade a charge of infringement. Bundy Mfg. Co. v. Detroit Time-Register Co., 94 F. 524 , 538, 36 C. C. A. 375 ; Dowagiac Mfg. Co. v. Brennan, 127 F. 150 , 62 C. C. A. 257 . This principle is even more applicable when the change made relates to mere matter of form not of the essence of the invention.””
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.