Wooster v. Handy’s Empirical Analysis
21 F. 51 · 1884
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1996
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 Miller v. Brass Co. · Gage v. Herring · Gill v. Wells · Powder Company v. Powder Works · Edward P. Fourniquet and Wife, and Martin W. Ewing and Wife v. John Perkins
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule laid down by the supreme court is that where it is sought merely to enlarge a claim there must be a clear mistake and inadvertence, and a speedy application for the correction, with no unreasonable delay; that in such a case a patentee cannot wait until other inventors have produced new forms of improvement and then apply for such an enlargement of his claim as to make it embrace those new forms; and that when it is apparent from a comparison of the two patents that the reissue is made to enlarge the scope of the patent, the court may decide whether the delay was unreasonable, and the reissue therefore void. This view has been repeatedly asserted and applied by the supreme court in numerous cases decided since those in 104 U. S.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Odell v. Stout
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.