Royer v. Coure’s Empirical Analysis
146 U.S. 524 · 1892
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 28 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2000 · most notably Altoona Publix Theatres, Inc. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp. (1935), Festo Corporation v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co Ltd Smc Corporation Smc Pneumatics Inc (2000)
51 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 Reynes v. Dumont · Roemer v. Peddie · Dobson v. Lees · Phoenix Caster Co v. Spiegel
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On June 10, 1373, he put in a claim to the mode of preparing rawhides by the fulling operation and the preserving mixture. That claim was rejected by the patent office, and he withdrew it on October 29,1873. Nor can he, under the present patent, claim as a new article of manufacture the rawhide thus prepared; for he made that claim on June 10> 1873; it was rejected, and he struck it out on October 9, 1873. • “It is well settled, by numerous eases in this court, that under such circumstances a patentee cannot successfully contend that his patent shall he construed as if it still contained the claims which were so rejected and withdrawn. Roemer v. Peddie, 132 U. S. 313 , 317, 10 S. Ct. 98 [ 33 L. Ed. 382 ], and cases there cited. The principle thus laid down is that where 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.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a person must be shown to have followed substantially the same process, the same mode of reaching the result as is described in the specifications.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e are of opinion that the views set forth by the circuit court are sound, and that the decree must be affirmed.”
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.