Densmore v. Scofield’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 375 · 1880
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1966 · most notably Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc (1966), Continental Paper Bag Company v. Eastern Paper Bag Company (1908)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Brown v. Piper
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Patents rightfully issued are property, and are surrounded by the same rights and sanctions which attend all other property. Patentees as a class are public benefactors, and their rights should be protected. But the public has rights also. The rights of both should be upheld and enforced by an equally firm hand, whenever they come under judicial consideration.””
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.