Winthrop Iron Co. v. Meeker’s Empirical Analysis
109 U.S. 180 · 1883
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013 · most notably Radio Station WOW, Inc. v. Johnson (1945), Gulf Refining Co. v. United States (1925)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Bostwick v. Brinkerhoff · Evans v. Brown
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case is altogether different from suits by patentees to establish their patents and recover for the infringement. There the money recovery is part of the subject-matter of the suit. Here it is only an incident to what is sued for.’’”
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.