Stow v. Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
104 U.S. 547 · 1881
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1959 · most notably Miller v. Eagle Manuf'G Co (1894), Corona Cord Tire Co. v. Dovan Chemical Corp. (1928)
21 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Elizabeth v. Pavement Co. · Tucker v. Spalding · Ex parte Hagar
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A patentee who is the first to make an invention is entitled to his claim for all the uses and advantages which belong to it.””
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.