Harmon v. Struthers’s Empirical Analysis
48 F. 260 · 1891
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1935
1 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 Bronson v. Schulten · Thomson v. Wooster · Roswell Beebe et al. v. William Russell · Charles McMicken v. Franklin Perin · Frederick and Samuel Barnard and Henry Hawley v. John Gibson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a suit for infringement of letters patent there was a decree for plaintiffs, awarding an injunction, and for an account, and a reference to a master. The defendants quit using the device so held to infringe, substituting a different device, which was openly used by other persons, and as to which there-had been no adjudication. Then, pending the reference before the master, the plaintiffs brought a new suit in the same court against the same defendants. The answer therein not only denied infringement, but alleged that one G., and not the patentee, was the original and first inventor of the patented device, which defense was not set up in the first suit. Held, that the-decree was interlocutory, and did not, in the second suit, preclude inquiry into the validity of the patent.””
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.