Bonsack Mach. Co. v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
70 F. 383 · 1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1942
1 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 Bate Refrigerating Co. v. Sulzberger · Fowle v. Park · Beach v. . Nixon · Bate Refrigerating Co. v. Hammond · Pohl v. Anchor Brewing Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The issues are these: Do the complainants hold letters patent of the United States giving them the exclusive right to make, vend, and use certain patentable devices? Have the defendants infringed the rights thus granted? If in procuring these exclusive rights, or if, in their exercise, the complainants have been guilty of fraudulent or improper conduct towards these defendants, the fundamental principles relied on would debar them of any relief in this court. But if, in the absence of these, it is sought to deprive them of their remedy for the infringement of their rights because of their motives in asserting them, such motives are- not the subject of judicial inquiry. Strait v. National Harrow Co., 51 Fed. 819 . ‘The rule that one coming into equity must come with clean hands Is confined to the conduct of the party in the matter before the court, and not to matters aliunde. Courts of equity, as well as courts of law, will not refuse redress to the suitor because his conduct in other matters not then before the court may not be blameless. It is enough if the suitor shows that he has acted justly, fairly, and legally in the subject-matter of the suit.’ Beach, Mod. Eq. .Tur. § 16, and cases cited.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““But the American patent will be granted upon the condition that, if you obtain the foreign patent first, your invention shall be free to the American, people whenever, by reason of the expiration of the foreign patent, >it becomes free to the people abroad.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.