Gray v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1817
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
September 2005
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the [accused and the claimed] machines are substantially the same, and operate in the same manner to produce the same result, they must be in principle the same.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“But if the jury should be of opinion that he is the original inventor, then there is nothing in this objection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.