Atkinson v. John E. Doherty & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1997 · most notably Goldman v. United States (1942), Roberson v. . Rochester Folding Box Co. (1902)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Sawyer · Chapman v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · 1 E.H. Smith 434 - Schuyler v. . Curtis · Boston Diatite Co. v. Florence Manufacturing Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a private individual to prohibit the reproduction of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.