Mellor v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis
141 F. 992 · 1905
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2017
6 federal appellate · 6 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 Woodward v. Boston Lasting Mach. Co. · Continental Wire Fence Co. v. Pendergast · Time Telegraph Co. v. Himmer · Marvel Co. v. Pearl · Daniel v. Miller
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.
““If tlie estopped assignor enters into business with others who derive from him their knowledge of tlie patented process or machine and, availing themselves of his knowledge or assistance, enter with him upon a manufacture infringing the patent, which he has assigned, they are bound by his estoppel.””
2 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.