Houser v. Starr’s Empirical Analysis
203 F. 264 · 1913
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1954
13 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 White v. Dunbar · O'Reilly v. Morse · Cimiotti Unhairing Company v. American Fur Refining Company · Coupe v. Royer · Keystone Bridge Company v. Phoenix Iron Company
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever parts are named in the claim are of necessity intended to be named with reference to the specification and drawings. The reference cannot be made narrower by saying, ‘as described,’ nor broader by saying, ‘substantially.’ The words ‘substantially as described’ do not create this necessity for construction by the entire patent; they are only a formula of recognition of the rule.” 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The action of one part of the entire structure modifies and affects the action of the other part, and there is during the active period more than that mere aggregation which defeats a patent.” Houser v. Starr (C. C. A. 6) 203 Fed. 264 , 273, 121 C. C. A. 462 ; Mausoleum Co. v. Sievert (C. C. A. 6) 213 Fed. 225 , 129 C. C. A. 569 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The fact that no one had before combined all these features, which fact, while not controlling, is often persuasive to show invention, cannot prevail against a clear ease of the mere adoption of common expedients in adapting an existing machine to a new use, and in a case where the thought of adaptation is not new.””
1 later decision 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.