Thacher v. Transit Const. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
228 F. 905 · 1916
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1931
6 federal appellate · 5 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 McClain v. Ortmayer · White v. Dunbar · Morgan Envelope Co. v. Albany Perforated Wrapping Paper Co. · Knapp v. Morss · Shepard v. Carrigan
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. The combination with abutments, and a concrete arch spanning the intervening space, of a series of metal bars, in pairs, one bar of each, pair above the other, near the intrados and extrados of the arch, and extending well into the abutments, each bar of a pair being independent of the other, substantially as described.” “3. The combination with abutments, and a concrete arch spanning the space between the abutments, of a series of metal bars in pairs, one bar of each pair above the other bar, near the extrados and intradós of the arch, each bar of the pair being independent of the other, and one bar of each pair extending well into the abutment, substantially as described.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Furthermore, the patentee must be presumed to have meant what' he said. He has described a particular construction, and in his claim he has stated that it is this particular construction upon which he desired to secure a monopoly. Such self-imposed limitations are always recognized as precluding a patentee from showing that the invention is broader than his claims, and, if broader, he must be deemed to have surrendered the surplus to the public. Railroad Company v. Mellon, 104 U. S. 112 , 119, 26 L. Ed. 639 ; White v. Dunbar, 119 U. S. 47 , 51, 52 [ 7 Sup. Ct. 72 . 30 L. Ed. 303 ]; McClain v. Ortmayer, 141 U. S. 419 [ 12 Sup. Ct. 76 , 35 L. Ed. 800 ].””
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.