Ford v. Bancroft’s Empirical Analysis
98 F. 309 · 1899
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1930
3 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 Morley Sewing Machine Co. v. Lancaster · Reece Button-Hole Ma. Co. v. Globe Button-Hole Ma. Co. · Ford v. Bancroft
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 a patent represents a marked advance in the art (for example, where an inventor for the first time accomplishes a certain result by organizing several groups of instrumentalities into a single automatic machine, as in the Morley patent for sewing shank buttons to a fabric, or in the Reece patent for a buttonhole sewing machine), such a patent is called a ‘pioneer’; and the courts, in its construction, have adopted a liberal rule with respect to equivalents.””
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.