Buzzell v. Andrews’s Empirical Analysis

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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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When a patent has been issued for an invention, which consists in a peculiar arrangement of old elements or parts, it must be construed strictly, and the monopoly limited substantially to the. special character of the parts and the particular organization described. A machine which may he forced to produce! a similar result will not be regarded as ail infringement if that was not the object of its construction.” Buzzell v. Andrews (C. C.) 25 Fed. 822 ; Delons v. Bickford (C. C.) 13 Fed. 32 ; Page v. Ferry, 1 Fish. Pat. Cas. 298 , Fed. Cas. No. 10,662.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Winslow v. Bronson