Exhibit Supply Co. v. Ace Patents Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
315 U.S. 126 · 1942
Citation profile
208 federal appellate · 78 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 656 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Warner-Jenkinson Company Inc v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co (1997), Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. (1995)
208 federal appellate · 78 district · 3 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
reviewedAce Patents Corp. v. Exhibit Supply Co. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. · Altoona Publix Theatres, Inc. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp. · Schriber-Schroth Co. v. Cleveland Trust Co. · I. T. S. Rubber Co. v. Essex Rubber 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 656 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the applicant restricted his claim to those combinations in which the conductor means, though carried on the table, is also embedded in it. By the amendment, he recognized and emphasized the difference between the two phrases and proclaimed his abandonment of all that is embraced in that difference. * * * -****•»■» * * * The difference which he thus disclaimed must be regarded as material, and since the amendment operates as a disclaimer of that difference it must be strictly construed against him. * * * As the question is one of construction of-the claim it is immaterial whether the examiner was right or wrong in rejecting the claim as filed. * * *”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“old in the art to make an electrical contact by flexing a coil spring as shown by the art already cited in the case”
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.