Spalding v. John Wanamaker’s Empirical Analysis
256 F. 530 · 1919
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 1968 · most notably Autogiro Co. of America v. United States (1967), Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. United States Rubber Co. (1935)
9 federal appellate · 9 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 Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. v. Condit Electrical Mfg. Co. · Auto Pneumatic Action Co. v. Kindler & Collins
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The successive rejections of this claim necessarily involve the rejection of the construction which the plaintiff seeks to put upon the patent at the present time — or at least, so it seems to us — and concludes it by estoppel from the interpretation which it now seelos to put upon those claims which the patentee eventually got.” (Italics mine.)”
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.