Cuno Engineering Corporation v. Automatic Devices Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
314 U.S. 84 · 1941
Citation profile
687 federal appellate · 190 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,312 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc (1966), Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation (1971)
687 federal appellate · 190 district · 1 state decisions
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
reviewedAutomatic Devices Corp. v. Cuno Engineering Corp. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Atlantio Works v. Brady Brady · Julia Hotchkiss Executrix of John Hotchkiss Deceased John Davenport and John Quincy v. Miles Greenwood · Altoona Publix Theatres, Inc. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp. · Deering v. Winona Harvester Works
Cited together with Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. · Lincoln Engineering Co of Illinois v. Stewart-Warner Corporation · Julia Hotchkiss Executrix of John Hotchkiss Deceased John Davenport and John Quincy v. Miles Greenwood · Sinclair & Carroll Co. v. Interchemical Corp. · Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc
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 1,312 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * `Perfection of workmanship, however much it may increase the convenience, extend the use, or diminish expense, is not patentable.' * * *”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“More must be done than to utilize the skill of the art in bringing old tools into new combinations”
2 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.