White v. Rankin’s Empirical Analysis
144 U.S. 628 · 1892
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1985 · most notably Fair v. Kohler Die & Specialty Co. (1913), Henry v. A. B. Dick Co. (1912)
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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 Hartell v. Tilghman · James G. Wilson v. George A. Sanford and Robert G. Musgrove · Albright v. Teas · Dale Tile Manufacturing Co. v. Hyatt
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Does the complainant `set up some right, title, or interest under the patent laws of the United States, or make it appear that some right or privilege will be defeated by one construction, or sustained by another, of those laws?'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.