Greenleaf v. Goodrich’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 278 · 1879
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2014 · most notably Corning Glass Works v. Brennan (1974), United States v. Raynor (1938)
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
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 Maillard v. Lawrence
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Composed, as the goods were, of the same materials as delaines, having a similar general appearance and intended for the same uses, they might well have been of similar description with colored delaines, though there were differences in the process of manufacture. [Greenleaf, supra, p. 283 .]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a departure from the natural and popular acceptation of language,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“goods of similar description to delaines”
2 later decisions 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.