Steffens v. Steiner’s Empirical Analysis
232 F. 862 · 1916
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 1964 · most notably Nat Lewis Purses, Inc. v. Carole Bags, Inc. (1936), Lewis v. Vendome Bags, Inc. (1939)
14 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 Smith v. Whitman Saddle Co. · Graff, Washbourne & Dunn v. Webster · Mygatt v. Schaffer · Haff v. R. Wallace & Sons 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To sustain a design patent, the design must involve something more than mere-mechanical skill; and whether the assembling of old design elements into one unitary design is patentable depends on whether, in the particular case, such assembling rises to the level of invention and tbe result possesses originality and beauty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The question in the ease at bar is not whether a design patent can he sustained, although each separate element in the design may be old, but it is whether what, has been done in assembling the old elements in the new designs rose in these particular cases to the level oí invention.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““To sustain a design patent, the design must involve something more than mere mechanical skill. There must he invention.””
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.