Boynton v. Chicago Hardware Foundry Co.’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.2d 799 · 1935
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1960
11 federal appellate · 2 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. · Vanmanen v. Leonard
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are not unmindful of the presumption of validity which attaches to the patent by virtue of its issuance, but that presumption cannot stand against pertinent art which was not considered by the Examiner.”
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.