Burroughs Adding Mach. Co. v. Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
243 F. 861 · 1917
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 1958
14 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 Continental Paper Bag Company v. Eastern Paper Bag Company · Winans v. Adam Edward and Talbot Denmead · Snow v. Lake Shore M S Ry Co · O. H. Jewell Filter Co. v. Jackson · State Bank of Chicago v. Hillman's
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that a patentee's broadest claim can be no broader than his actual invention, no matter how it may be expressed or what other claims his patent may contain.”
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.