From: stephen@sprunk.org

On 16-May-14 08:21, John Levine wrote:
>> I can't recall having seen any citations of English cases after
>> 1776, and I'm pretty sure I'd remember that because I'd recall
>> questioning the legal authority of such a precedent.
>
> In the 1800s the Court cited English law all the time.  See, for
> example, the patent case Pennock & Sellers v. Dialogue - 27 U.S. 1
> (1829), where Justice Story discussed the Statute of Monopolies as
> the legislative antecedent of US patent law, and cites Wood v.
> Zimmer, 1 Holt's N.P. 58.

The important detail is that Wood v. Zimmer was in 1818, well after US
independence.  I was unaware of that example; thanks!

S

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