Kells v. McKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
9 F. 284 · 1881
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1926
1 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 Smith v. Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Co. · Leggett v. Avery · Powder Company v. Powder Works · Russell v. Dodge · Joseph Battin Patentee and Samuel Battin Assignee v. James Taggert Joseph Battin Patentee and Samuel Battin Assignee
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the commissioner accepts a surrender of an original patent, and grants a new patent, his decision in the premises in a suit for infringement is final and conclusive, and is not re-examinable in such suit in the circuit court unless it is apparent upon the face of the patent that ho has exceeded his authority; that there is such repugnancy between the old and the new patent that it must be hold, as a matter of legal construction, that the new patent is not for the same invention as that embraced and secured in the original patent.””
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.