West v. Rae’s Empirical Analysis
33 F. 45 · 1887
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1946
5 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on Dunbar v. Myers · Slawson v. Grand Street Railroad · Wollensak v. Reiher · Terhune v. Phillips · Piper v. Moon
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the lig'lr: of these authorities, I cannot see why, in a suit for infringement of a patent so clearly and baldly void as this, the court ought not to save the defendant from the vexation and expense of a trial upon proofs by sustaining a demurrer to the bill. If, after a case reaches the supreme court, that court can, from its common Knowledge, without reference to the pleadings and proofs, but merely from an examination of the patent itself, sijy that the patent is void, I see no reason why the court of original jurisdiction cannot do the same. The demurrer is therefore sustained, and the bill dismissed for want of equity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This is a b.ll in equity charging defendant with the infringement of patent No. 256,744, granted by the United States to Joshua Sandage, April 18, 18S2, for a “wagon-axle skein,” and praying an accounting. Defendants have demurred-to the bill on the ground that the patent in question on its face shows no patentable novelty in the device covered by the specification and claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.