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127 U.S. 176 · 1888

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
January 1977
most recently cited

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 ·

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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.

  1. “substantially as described in this patent”
    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.