Mygatt v. Schaffer’s Empirical Analysis
218 F. 827 · 1914
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1955 · most notably Nat Lewis Purses, Inc. v. Carole Bags, Inc. (1936), Strause Gas Iron Co. v. William M. Crane Co. (1916)
8 federal appellate · 6 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 Atlantio Works v. Brady Brady · Gorham Company v. White · Cantrell v. Wallick · The Suffolk Company v. Hayden · Graff, Washbourne & Dunn v. Webster
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is not necessary in the ease of a design patent that the thing to be patented should have been made for the purpose of ornament. It is sufficient that a useful article has been made in such a way as to make it ornamental. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Elliott““It is the design of the whole thing as it appears in use which is the test in cases of the class in suit.””
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.