Miller v. Foree’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 22 · 1885
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1974 · most notably Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. (1950), Ansonia Brass & Copper Co. v. Electrical Supply Co. (1892)
19 federal appellate · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPennsylvania Co v. Locomotive Engine Safety Truck Co
Relationships
Relies on 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the application of an old process or machine to a similar or analogous subject; with no change in the manner of application and no result substantially distinct in its nature, will not sustain a patent, even if the new form of result had not before been contemplated.”
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.