Hoyt v. Horne’s Empirical Analysis
145 U.S. 302 · 1892
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 23 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2005 · most notably Continental Paper Bag Company v. Eastern Paper Bag Company (1908), Westinghouse v. Boyden Power Brake Co. (1898)
61 federal appellate · 23 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 Winans v. Adam Edward and Talbot Denmead · Hoyt v. Horne
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant's [device] may be in [one] particular an improvement upon the other; but [defendant] has nonetheless succeeded in appropriating all that was of value in the [plaintiff's] device.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“merely the use of an old and well known mechanical equivalent, and obviously intended to evade the wording of the claims of the Hoyt patent”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except as otherwise expressly provided by Act of Congress, any civil action brought in a State court of which the district courts of the United States have original jurisdiction, may be removed by the defendant or the defendants, to the district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place where such action is pending.”
1 later decision 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.