Dobson v. Dornan’s Empirical Analysis
118 U.S. 10 · 1886
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 26 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Rite-Hite Corporation Hmh Hoj Rb We v. Kelley Company Inc (1995), California v. Central Pacific Railroad (1888)
50 federal appellate · 26 district · 3 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 Littlefield v. Perry · Dobson v. Hartford Carpet Co. · Dillman v. Hastings
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Invented and produced a new and original design for carpets, of which the following is a specification: The nature of my design is fully represented in the accompanying photographic illustration, to which reference is made. I claim as my invention the configuration of the design hereunto annexed, when applied to carpeting.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Saint“The plaintiff must show what profits or damages are attributable to the use of the infringing design”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any new and original design for a manufacture.”
1 later decision 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.