Allis v. Stowell’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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

1. “•“But apart from this phase of the question, I am of opinion that to prevent a multiplicity of suits the court may, in a proper case and upon a proper showing, require the prosecution of suits between the patentee and a mere user of a patented machine to be suspended, and await the result of a suit between the patentee and the principal infringer from whom the us'er purchased the machine. Undoubtedly the court has the power to exercise restraining control over the litigation where the principal parties are before it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commercial Acetylene Co. v. Avery Portable Lighting Co.

2. ““In this view of the law it was held that to prevent a multiplicity of suits the court might, in a proper case and on a proper showing, require the prosecution of suits between a patentee and a mere user of a patented machine to be suspended, to await the result of the suit between the patentee and the principal infringer from whom the user purchased this machine — a doctrine in which we fully concur, although we think the application should be made to the courts in which these suits are pending.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commercial Acetylene Co. v. Avery Portable Lighting Co.