Evans v. Eaton’s Empirical Analysis
20 U.S. 356 · 1822
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. (1995), Burton v. United States (1905)
51 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 state decisions
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 Evans v. Eaton
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[After enablement,] [t]he other object of the specification is to put the public in possession of what the party claims as his own invention, so as to ascertain if he claims any thing that is in common use, or is already known ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deliver a written description of his invention, and of the manner of using, or process of compounding the same, in such full, clear, and exact terms, as to distinguish the same from all other things before known, and to enable any person skilled in the art or science ... to make, compound, and use the same. . 4 [Emphasis supplied.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an innocent purchaser or other person using a machine, of his infringement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.