Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2003
2 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 Dow Chemical Co. v. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. · United States v. Esnault-Pelterie
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The main issue is validity of the patent in suit over prior domestic and foreign patents, and over a prior public use. This issue is factual.”
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.