Leuschner v. Kuther’s Empirical Analysis
314 F.2d 71 · 1963
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1985
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Continental Paper Bag Company v. Eastern Paper Bag Company · Aro Manufacturing Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co. · Leeds Catlin Company v. Victor Talking Machine Company · Wilson v. Simpson · Miller Hatcheries, Inc. v. Buckeye Incubator 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“14 The appellants went beyond the limits of preservation of a machine's fitness as laid out in Leeds & Catlin Co. v. Victor Talking Machine Co. (No. 2), 213 U.S. 325, 336 , 29 S.Ct. 503, 507 , 53 L.Ed. 816 viz.:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leuschner v. Kuther“[W]hether it is infringement for the possessor of a patented combination, designed to pack one pound cans only, to so change essential parts that the machine will pack five ounce cans only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leuschner v. Kuther“, pertain solely to size of the can which the machine would ultimately handle, they were authorized to do so under authority of the statement made in Tabulating Machine, etc., supra:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leuschner v. Kuther
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.