Menendez v. Holt’s Empirical Analysis
128 U.S. 514 · 1888
Citation profile
352 federal appellate · 121 district · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,073 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Hanover Star Milling Co. v. Metcalf (1916), United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co. (1918)
352 federal appellate · 121 district · 115 state decisions — followed in 26 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 McLean v. Fleming · Speidel v. Henrici · Manufacturing Co. v. Trainer · Badger v. Badger
Cited together with McLean v. Fleming · Hanover Star Milling Co. v. Metcalf · United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co. · Saxlehner v. Eisner & Mendelson Co. · American Steel Foundries v. Robertson
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 1,073 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is an aggravation and not a justification.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage““Delay in bringing suit there was, and such delay as to preclude recovery of damages for prior infringement; but there was neither conduct nor negligence which could be held to destroy the right to prevention of further injury.” 128 U.S. at 524 , 9 S.Ct. at 145 .”
4 later decisions 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.