Smith & Davis Manuf'g Co. v. Mellon’s Empirical Analysis
58 F. 705 · 1893
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2001
10 federal appellate · 2 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 Loom Company v. Higgins · Elizabeth v. Pavement Co. · Smith Griggs Manuf'G Co v. Sprague · Egbert v. Lippmann · Consolidated Fruit-Jar Co. v. Wright
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In conclusion it may be said that the matter of obtaining a patent was an afterthought, and one that came too late to be of any avail to the patentee, even if there was in the construction of the bed such a display of inventive skill, and such novelty and utility, as gave right to a patent, and of that we express no opinion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such a use does not carve an exception out of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a trader's, and not an inventor's, experiment,”
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.