Clark v. Bousfield’s Empirical Analysis
77 U.S. 133 · 1869
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1924
3 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The patent is simply for the design, etc., itself.” “It may be that the inventors of the machine for impressing figures or designs upon pails or other wares would not 'be protected from using figures or designs, the right of property in which had been secured to the original inventor under this eleventh section, but they may clearly use any and all not thus protected. The machine in question is invented for reducing to practical use these figures and designs, and will make them profitable to the original inventors or owners of them, if they choose to employ it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goudy v. Hansen
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.