Muller v. Lodge & Davis Machine Tool Co.’s Empirical Analysis
77 F. 621 · 1896
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1916
12 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 Washburn Moen Manuf'G Co v. Beat 'Em All Barbed-Wire Co · Loom Company v. Higgins · Topliff v. Topliff · Miller v. Eagle Manuf'G Co · Morgan v. Daniels
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be laid down as a general rule, though, perhaps, not an inviolable one, that if a new combination and arrangement of known elements produce a new and beneficial result, never attained before, it is evidence of invention.””
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.