Dunn Mfg. Co. v. Standard Computing Scale Co.’s Empirical Analysis
204 F. 617 · 1913
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1935
8 federal appellate · 3 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 Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company v. Wagner Electric & Manufacturing Company · Coupe v. Royer · McCreary v. Pennsylvania Canal Co. · Wales v. Waterbury Mfg. Co. · Yesbera v. Hardesty Mfg. 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems rather a strange result that the patent laud should allow liberty to use, or should prohibit the use of, a given mechanical structure according as one part of it is marked with one or another kind of numerals; yet this is the necessary result of our previous decision, and of the facts which now clearly appear. Not only are we under a more or less absolute obligation to adhere to the former decision, but under these peculiar facts we are satisfied with that decision. The total value bar and the weight bar are not functionally the same thing, though one function is inchoate in and developable from the other; and the thought that the work of these computations and these transpositions could be avoided, and their result displayed in figures on the face of the bar, so producing a Iready-made total value cutter, instead of somewhat raw materials for one, we consider was, in fact, invention, and not merely double use, even though the only physical change involved was the remarking appropriate to the convenient use of the newly developed function. Defendant, in its newer cutter, has abandoned the ‘ready-made? total value bar, and gone back to the ‘raw materials.’” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Lockert““The question of profits can hardly depend on the largely fortuitous language of the claim in extending the combination, instead of on the actual advance in the art.””
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.