White v. Dunbar’s Empirical Analysis
119 U.S. 47 · 1886
Citation profile
163 federal appellate · 144 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 665 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. (1950), Phillips v. AWH Corp. (2005)
163 federal appellate · 144 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 Miller v. Brass Co. · Keystone Bridge Company v. Phoenix Iron Company · James v. Campbell
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 665 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The claim is a statutory requirement, prescribed for the very purpose of making the patentee define precisely what his invention is; and it is unjust to the public, as well as an evasion of the law, to construe it in a manner different from the plain import of its terms.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The existence of intervening rights adds nothing to the illegality of a reissue which has been expanded to cover more than the original patent sought to cover. That is deduced from general principles of law as applied to the statutes authorizing reissues and affecting the rights of the government and the public.””
4 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.