Bassick Mfg Co v. R M Hollingshead Co Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
298 U.S. 415 · 1936
Citation profile
109 federal appellate · 33 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 307 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1978 · most notably Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. (1950), Lincoln Engineering Co of Illinois v. Stewart-Warner Corporation (1938)
109 federal appellate · 33 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
reviewedLyman Mfg. Co. v. Bassick Mfg. Co. (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Carbice Corporation of America v. American Patents Development Corporation · Leeds Catlin Company v. Victor Talking Machine Company · Morgan Envelope Co. v. Albany Perforated Wrapping Paper Co. · Underwood v. Gerber
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 307 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question then is whether, by this method, the patentee, by improving one element of an old combination whose construction and operation is otherwise unchanged, may, in effect, repatent the old combination by reclaiming it with the improved element substituted for the old element. That this cannot be done is shown by numerous cases in this and other federal courts.” (Emphasis added) ( 298 U.S. 425 , 56 S.Ct. 791 , 80 L.Ed. 1256 )”
8 later decisions 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.