In re Kirschbraun’s Empirical Analysis
44 F.2d 675 · 1930
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2004
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Continental Paper Bag Company v. Eastern Paper Bag Company · Winans v. Adam Edward and Talbot Denmead · Western Electric Co. v. LaRue · National Hollow Brake-Beam Co. v. Interchangeable Brake-Beam Co. · Lourie Implement Co. v. Lenhart
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The exclusive right to the thing patented is not secured, if the public are at liberty to make substantial copies of it, varying its form or proportions. And, therefore, the patentee, having described his invention, and shown its principles, and claimed it in that form which most perfectly embodies it, is, in contemplation of law, deemed to claim every form in which his invention may be copied, unless he manifests an intention to disclaim some of those forms.”
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.