As such, the dual form of citation to, for example, United States v. City of Philadelphia is 52 U.S. (11 How.)

The Supreme Court is established by Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which says: "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court .

The size of the Court is not specified; the Constitution leaves it to Congress to set the number of justices.

were decided the Court comprised these nine members: Hotchkiss v. Greenwood, 52 U.S. (11 How.)

248 (1851), is a Supreme Court decision credited with introducing into United States patent law the concept of non-obviousness as a patentability requirement,[3] as well as stating the applicable legal standard for determining its presence or absence in a claimed invention.