Bernz v. Schaefer’s Empirical Analysis
205 F. 49 · 1913
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1938
3 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 Reckendorfer v. Faber · Howard v. Detroit Stove Works · National Cash Register Co. v. American Cash Register Co. · Standard Caster & Wheel Co. v. Caster Socket Co. · Mast, Foos & Co. v. Dempster Mill Manuf'g 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The objects of the invention are to secure improved means for obtaining the necessary air pressure in the body of the torch; to secure a construction ■of pump which shall not leak and in which the plunger is always out of the way; to secure a safe and practical pump for ordinary usage; to obtain a ■simple and inexpensive construction throughout, and to obtain other' advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.'’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bernz v. Schaefer
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.