Heaton-Peninsular Button-Fastener Co. v. Eureka Specialty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
77 F. 288 · 1896
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2010 · most notably Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co. (1911), Continental Paper Bag Company v. Eastern Paper Bag Company (1908)
33 federal appellate · 13 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 Gayler v. Wilder · Morgan Envelope Co. v. Albany Perforated Wrapping Paper Co. · Rubber Company v. Goodyear · Birdsell v. Shaliol · Adams v. Burke
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A license operates only as a waiver of the monopoly as to the licensee, ‘and estops the licensor from exercising its prohibitory powers in derogation of the privileges conferred by him upon the licensee.’ Rob. Pat. §§ 806-808. It has been said that the sole matter conveyed in a license is the right not to be sued.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Condition of Sale. “This machine is sold and purchased to use only with fasteners made by the Peninsular Novelty Company, to whom the title to said machine immediately reverts upon violation of this contract of sale.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That the grant is made upon the reasonable expectation that he will either put his patent to practical use, or permit others to avail themselves of it upon reasonable terms, is doubtless true.””
2 later decisions 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.