Garretson v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 120 · 1884
Citation profile
147 federal appellate · 51 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 330 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Tilghman v. Proctor (1888), Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company v. Wolf Brothers & Company (1916)
147 federal appellate · 51 district · 2 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.
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 330 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must in every case give evidence tending to separate or apportion the defendant's profits and the patentee's damages between the patented feature and the unpatented features.”
33 later decisions 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.