1900 Washer Co. v. Cramer’s Empirical Analysis
169 F. 629 · 1909
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1956
4 federal appellate · 1 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 Cramer & Haak v. 1900 Washer Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The combination or description of the standard washer, or of this Wearne tub, can be read, it is contended by defendants’ counsel, into this first claim. This may be true, if we stick in the bark, by looking at the language of the claim, dissociated from the specifications; but no invention can be practically or fairly understood or explained, if such dissociation is absolutely adhered to. As we have already shown, the element described in the first claim, as-‘means for actuating said lever,’ must not be taken to be any means, such as impracticable hand power applied to the lever, but the efficient practical means-described in the specifications. Heading the claim and the specifications together, the invention of the patentee was clearly such an application of mechanical power as would oscillate the tub with all the advantages afforded by the resiliency and retardation of the springs of the standard washer preserved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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