Haines v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
135 U.S. 584 · 1890
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1959
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 Transportation Line v. Hope
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A claim limited by the Patent Office and acquiesced in by the patentee should not be enlarged by construction beyond the fair interpretation of its terms.””
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.