Graham v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
11 F. 859 · 1880
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1960 · most notably Root v. Third Avenue Railroad (1892), Ide v. Trorlicht, Duncker & Renard Carpet Co. (1902)
5 federal appellate · 1 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 Smith v. Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is to be borne in mind that the application for the second patent, that of 1868, the one in controversy here, was made while that for the previous patent was pending, and before the prior patent had been issued. There were thus pending before the patent office two applications at the same time, where the claims were different, and we understand it to be in accordance with the practice of the patent office to allow applications to be made at the same time, by the same party, for different parts of the same machine.””
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.