McBride v. Kingman’s Empirical Analysis
97 F. 217 · 1899
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1921
4 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 James v. Campbell · Adams Electric Ry. Co. v. Lindell Ry. Co. · Stirrat v. Excelsior Manuf'g Co. · Buffington's Iron Bldg. Co. v. Eustis · Adams v. Bellaire Stamping Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would constitute rank injustice to permit an inventor, after a combination or device that he d,i(i not distinctly claim in his patent had gone into genera] use, and years after his patent had been granted, to read that combination or device into one of the claims of his patent, and to recover for its infringement of every one who had used it upon the faith of his solemn declaration that he did not claim it.” .....”
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.