Fuller v. Yentzer’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 288 · 1876
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1995 · most notably Westinghouse v. Boyden Power Brake Co. (1898), Miller v. Eagle Manuf'G Co (1894)
40 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Burr v. Duryee
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A suit for infringement cannot be maintained against a party who constructs or uses a substantially different combination, even though it includes the same exact elements or ingredients.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Patents for a machine will not be sustained if the claim is for a result, the established rule being that the invention, if any, within the meaning of the patent act, consists in the means or apparatus by which the result is obtained, and not merely in the mode of operation, independent of the mechanical devices employed.” 1”
3 later decisions 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.