General Electric Co. v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
119 F. 922 · 1903
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1952
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Bement Sons v. National Harrow Company · Grant v. Raymond · American Soda-Fountain Co. v. Green · Columbia Wire Co. v. Freeman Wire Co. · Royer v. Coupe
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is difficult to understand, how or why a violation of the Sherman antitrust law by this complainant, if there has been such a violation, confers any right on the defendant to infringe this patent. That act points out the penalties for its violation, and it is not understood that such law denies the grantees of patents the protection of the law because they may be violating some statute. However that may be, the evidence falls far short of establishing such a violation by this complainant. The testimony on that subject is squarely contradicted. An individual cannot confiscate the property or property right of a corporation on the ground it has violated that act. Soda Fountain Co. v. Green (C. C.) 69 Fed. 333 ; Columbia Wire Co. v. Freeman Wire Co. (C. C.) 71 Fed. 302 ; Bement v. Harrow Co., 186 U. S. 70 , 88-91, 22 Sup. Ct. 747 , 46 L. Ed. 1058 . Harrow Co. v. Quick (C. C.) 67 Fed 131 , cannot be accepted as authority on this question.””
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.