Mason v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
90 U.S. 261 · 1874
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1942
12 federal appellate · 4 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 Fashnacht v. Frank
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"But the master further reported that defendant made infringing motions after a, pattern of Ms own devising; that they cost, per pair, 50 cents less than the Tickerstail’ mechanism which he had immediately before put upon his looms; that they were made under a patent granted to Mm; and that they cost about 50 cents less than the motions made by the plaintiffs, the difference in the cost being due to M,s invention. If this is so, it is clear that the 50 cents saved on each pair, equivalent to 50 cents profit, is not due to the oo-mplainanfs invention. * * * Manifestly the complainants are not entitled to the savings or profits resulting from the defendant’s own 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.