McCaskey Register Co. v. Divens’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““12. Account-recording appliances, including a bill-bolder frame, bill-bolders mounted on tbe frame, and having pairs of apertures therein, bill-clamps mounted oppositely on both side.s of tbe bill-bolders and. having members extending through the apertures to opposite sides thereof, the bill-clamps, on both sides of the bill-holders, extending from the apertures in the same direction. “13. Account-recording appliances, including pivoted bill-holders, bill-clamps mounted on the bill-holders, tab-holders attached'to the bill-clamps near the free ends thereof, and index-tabs mounted on the tab-holders.” “15. Account-recording appliances, including a bill-holder frame, bill-holders mounted on the frame and having pairs of apertures therein, bill-clamps mounted' oppositely on both sides of the bill-holders and having members extending through the apertures to opposite sides thereof, and rubbing-strips, on the bill-holders in pairs on opposing holders, and co-operating one with another.” “22. In account-recording appliances, the combination, with a plurality of pivoted bill-holders, of a plurality of bill-clamps mounted on the holders, tab-holders attached to the bill-clamps, and index-tabs attached to the tab-holders.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McCaskey Register Co. v. Mantz

2. ““This invention relates to systems for keeping records of credit sales of merchandise and also the cash payments thereon; and the invention has reference particularly to the apparatus and appliances for carrying out the systems. “The objects are to improve credit systems that are carried out by means of duplicate account slips or bills and bill holders in lieu of regular sets of account books, and to improve the various means employed for carrying out such systems as referred to above, so that the apparatus and appliances therefor may be conveniently handled and at the same time be inexpensive in first cost and economical in use. “With the above-mentioned and other objects in view, the invention consists in improved apparatus and appliances whereby credit accounts may be recorded and kept, in the novel features of construction of the apparatus and appliances comprised in the means for carrying out the credit system, and in the novel combinations and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter particularly described, and pointed out in the appended claims.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McCaskey Register Co. v. Divens