Bennet v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
75 U.S. 445 · 1869
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1952 · most notably Webster Electric Co. v. Splitdorf Electrical Co. (1924), United States ex rel. Steinmetz v. Allen (1904)
7 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.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to lay down any general rule by which to determine when a given invention or improvements shall be embraced in one, two, or more patents. * * * It is often a nice and perplexing question.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“had been embraced in one, in the original patent.”
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.