Buckan v. McKesson’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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Although the crude carbolic acid or the creosote directed by McDougall [prior art patentee] to be used did not contain earbolie or cresylic acid as pure or as concentrated as it was afterwards made, there was no invention in using the purer'article, provided the prior compound was a true soap, developing the properties of the adds referred to. The advance was only one of degree, so far as the use .of the acids was concerned.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Southern Electro-Chemical Co. v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.