Holland Furniture Co. v. Perkins Glue Co.’s Empirical Analysis
277 U.S. 245 · 1928
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 42 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 338 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably General Electric Co. v. Wabash Appliance Corp. (1938), United Carbon Co. v. Binney & Smith Co. (1942)
160 federal appellate · 42 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPerkins Glue Co. v. Holland Furniture Co. (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Westinghouse v. Boyden Power Brake Co. · O'Reilly v. Morse · Leeds Catlin Company v. Victor Talking Machine Company · Cochrane v. Deener · Knapp v. Morss
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 338 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exclusively in terms of its use or function.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It was necessary that the Perkins’ patent, so far as it is a patent of a composition of matter, should contain some description of the ingredients entering into the composition which would both define the invention [citing authorities] and carry it beyond the previous development of the art.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Angle v. Richardson“product patents or patents of compositions of matter are distinct from patents of the process by which the product may be produced * * *.”
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.