Paillard v. Bruno’s Empirical Analysis
29 F. 864 · 1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1909
1 federal appellate ·
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 Holmes Electric Protective Co. v. Metropolitan Burglar Alarm 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““According to ttie construction thus placed upon the section, it should be read as though it declared that the United States patent is to expire at the same time with the term of the foreign patent previously obtained for the' same invention, or, if there be more than one, at the same time with the one having the shortest term. Upon this construction the duration of the term of the United States, patent fixed when the patent issues, according to the maxim, ‘Id certum est quod certum reddi potest.’ Under any other construction, neither the Commissioner of Patents, nor the patentee, nor the public would know the duration of the grant. The term of a patent is the period of duration expressed in the grant. It may be terminated by operation of law, or by the act of the parties, at- an earlier time; and consequently it might happen that of two patents the one having the shortest term may have the longest life.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.