Doyle v. Spaulding’s Empirical Analysis
19 F. 744 · 1884
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1956
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 Illingworth v. Spaulding
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.
“"After a careful consideration of the provisions of the three sections of the patent act which bear upon the subject (sections 4886, 4920, and 4923, Rev. St.), we are of the opinion that the use, or a knowledge of the use, of an invention in a foreign country by persons residing in this country will not defeat a patent which has been here granted to a bona fide patentee, who at the time was ignorant of the existence of the invention or its use abroad.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.