Grant v. Walter’s Empirical Analysis
148 U.S. 547 · 1893
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1973 · most notably Miller v. Eagle Manuf'G Co (1894), Altoona Publix Theatres, Inc. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp. (1935)
52 federal appellate · 7 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 McClain v. Ortmayer · Smith v. Nichols · Brown v. Piper · Pennsylvania Co v. Locomotive Engine Safety Truck Co · Merrill v. Yeomans
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While this court has held in a number of cases that in a doubtful case the fact that a patented article has gone into general use is evidence of its utility, it is not conclusive even of that; much less of its patentóle novelty.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But a mere carrying forward, or new or more extended application of the original thought; a change only in form, proportions, or degree; the substitution of equivalents, doing substantially the same thing in the same; way by substantially the same means with better results, — is not such invention as will sustain a patent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bonnell v. Stoll
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.