Carter Mach. Co. v. Hanes’s Empirical Analysis
70 F. 859 · 1895
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1971
2 federal appellate ·
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 McClain v. Ortmayer · Miller v. Eagle Manuf'G Co · Davis v. Schwartz · Brown v. Piper · Coupe v. Royer
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1 am of opinion that well-settled principles of law, reason, and common .justice require that mere improvers in combinations of old elements and ingredients should be limited by a strict construction of their descriptive claims and specifications, so as'to leave the unappropriated field of art open to other improvers, that they may be encouraged to exercise their industry and incentive genius.” •”
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.