Morris v. McMillin’s Empirical Analysis
112 U.S. 244 · 1884
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 20 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1961 · most notably Cuno Engineering Corporation v. Automatic Devices Corporation (1941), Sinclair & Carroll Co. v. Interchemical Corp. (1945)
32 federal appellate · 20 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 Atlantio Works v. Brady Brady · Julia Hotchkiss Executrix of John Hotchkiss Deceased John Davenport and John Quincy v. Miles Greenwood · Smith v. Nichols · Hailes v. Van Wormer · Pennsylvania Co v. Locomotive Engine Safety Truck 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To grant a single party a monopoly of every slight advance made, except where the exercise of invention somewhat above ordinary mechanical or engineering shill is distinctly shown, is unjust in principle and injurious in its consequences.””
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.