Tucker v. Burditt’s Empirical Analysis

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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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ The process consists of cleaning a piece of cast iron of the desired pattern from the sand and scale which adhere to it when it comes from the mould, and then coating it with a very thin film of oil, and subjecting it to a high degree of heat, one or more times, whereby various colors may be produced upon the surface of the iron, and rendered permanent, which, before thus invention, were not produced in cast iron, or, if approximated, were not permanent. A film of varnish containing oil may be used instead of oil, and may infringe the patent; and so, if the iron is first heated, and then varnished and heated again, the process may be infringed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tucker v. Sargent & Co.