Klein v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 433 · 1873
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2015 · most notably Phillips v. AWH Corp. (2005), Scott Paper Co. v. Marcalus Manufacturing Co. (1945)
43 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court should proceed in a liberal spirit so as to sustain the patent and the construction claimed by the patentee himself, if this can be done consistently with the language he has employed.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““7th. That if fat liquor had been used substantially in the manner specified in the plaintiff’s patent, for the purpose of rendering any kind of leather soft and supple, more than two years (before the plaintiff applied for a patent), the plaintiff cannot recover, even though it had not been so used in dressing bark-tanned lamb or sheep skins.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Andrews v. Hovey · In re Wenzel“A patent relates back, where the question of novelty is in issue, to the date of the invention, and not to the time of the application for its issue. The jury had already been sufficiently instructed upon the subject. The instruction assumes that the reissue was for the use of fat liquor, without reference to the point whether it were hot or cold.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Andrews v. Hovey
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.