Thomas v. Rocker Spring Co.’s Empirical Analysis
77 F. 420 · 1896
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1954
12 federal appellate · 3 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 Morgan Envelope Co. v. Albany Perforated Wrapping Paper Co. · Shepard v. Carrigan · Leggett v. Avery · Crawford v. Heysinger · Union Metallio Cartridge Co v. United States Cartridge 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the patentee having once presented his claim in that form, and the Patent Office having rejected it, and he having acquiesced in such rejection, he is. under the repeated decisions of this court, now estopped to claim the benefit of his rejected claim, or such a construction of his present claim as would be equivalent thereto.””
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.