McMurray v. Mallory’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 97 · 1884
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1934 · most notably Topliff v. Topliff (1892), Turpin v. Lemon (1902)
7 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. Brass Co. · Gill v. Wells · Powder Company v. Powder Works · David Prouty John Mears v. Draper Ruggles · The Wood-Paper Patent the American Wood-Paper Co v. The Fibre Disintegrating Co the Fibre Disintegrating 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the disclaimer and its effect, if valid, was to abandon the reissued patent and resume the original. We are of opinion that this could not be done by a disclaimer. The original patent had been declared on the oath of the patentee to be invalid and inoperative. It had been surrendered and canceled and reissued letters patent granted in its place. It is not competent for the patentee or his assignees, by merely disclaiming all the changes made in the reissued patent, to revive and restore the original patent. This could be done only, if it could be done at all, by surrender ¡of the reissued patent and the grant of another reissue.””
2 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.