Forncrook v. Root’s Empirical Analysis
127 U.S. 176 · 1888
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1977
11 federal appellate · 1 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 Fay v. Cordesman · Gage v. Herring · Yale Lock Manuf'G Co v. Sargent · Dryfoos v. Wiese
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantially as described in this patent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butler v. Helms
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.