In re Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
November 1957
most recently cited
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on O'Reilly v. Morse · Artemas Brooks v. John Fiske
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well-settled law that a patent cannot issue for a result sought to be accomplished by the inventor of a machine, but only for the mechanical means or instrumentalities by which that result is to be obtained. One cannot describe a machine which will perform a certain function, and then claim the function itself, and all other machines that may be invented by others to perform the same function.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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