Sutter v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
119 U.S. 530 · 1886
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2000 · most notably Warner-Jenkinson Company Inc v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co (1997), McClain v. Ortmayer (1891)
30 federal appellate · 12 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 Shepard v. Carrigan · Robinson v. Sutter · Robinson v. Sutter
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether, in such an apparatus, the use of the cases, or boxes, or packages, in which the tobacco leaves are originally packed by the producer is equivalent to the wooden tobacco-holder mentioned in the complainants' specification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Patentee] is not at liberty now to insist upon a construction of his patent [i.e., legal effect] which will include what he was expressly required to abandon and disavow as a condition of the grant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by letters-patent, is —”
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.