Dodge v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
98 F. 624 · 1899
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1924
3 federal appellate · 1 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 Loom Company v. Higgins · Topliff v. Topliff · Hubel v. Dick · National Cash-Register Co. v. Lamson Consolidated Store-Service 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The inventive thought of Tiilinghast was in the tire itself, and not in the method of uniting two annular rubber tubes and an intervening fabric, which method may previously have been adopted for various purposes. The mere fact that it was old to vulcanize together an inner rubber tube, an intervening fabric, and an outer rubber cover, in the rubber hose art and in the rubber gasket art. does not prove that there was no invention in the application of such a method of construction, with such modifications as must be made, to a pneumatic tire. Although hose pipes and gaskets had been manufactured for years prior to the Tiilinghast: invention, it did not occur to any skilled mechanic that their method of construction could be successfully applied to the production of a pneumatic tire.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A pneumatic, tire, composed of a rubber tube, an intermediate layer of fabric, and an outer, covering of rubber, substantially as described, having all its rubber joints and component parts simultaneously vulcanized together, forming an integral annular tire.””
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.