Union Paper-Bag Machine Co. v. Waterbury’s Empirical Analysis
39 F. 389 · 1889
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1931
4 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.
Relationships
Relies on Mahn v. Harwood · Coon v. Wilson · United States v. Morton
Most-quoted passages
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““(1) The herein-described process or method of forming paper bags by making in a sheet of paper or blank the folds, B and C, then pasting together the two sides, Ag As, forming a bellows-sidetl body or tnbe of the bag, then spreading open one end of said body or tube, then forming the inwardly-projecting triangular folds, H, H, side laps, tí, G, and laps, I, J, which latter are secured in place by pasting or otherwise, substantially as described. (2) A bag consisting of a bellows-sided tube having a satchel bottom and inward triangular folds, which form part of its two sides when distended.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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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.