Herron v. Dater’s Empirical Analysis
120 U.S. 464 · 1887
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1992 · most notably 119 Wash. 2d 91 - Lutheran Day Care v. Snohomish County (1992), Sabariego v. Maverick (1888)
7 federal appellate · 7 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 Leffee v. Irvine · Campbell v. Galbreath · Evans v. Patterson · Ross v. Barker
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Clearly that recital was not evidence against the plaintiffs, for if the patent could not take effect against them without it, it could not give any effect to that recital. Their right had already vested prior to the existence of the patent, and the grant to them could not be affected by a subsequent grant to a stranger.”
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.