Haughey v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
151 U.S. 282 · 1894
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 19 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2010 · most notably Paramount Publix Corporation v. American Tri-Ergon Corporation (1935), Hoeltke v. C. M. Kemp Mfg. Co. (1935)
59 federal appellate · 19 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.
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether or not there is any inconsistency in trying at one time to get a patent for a supposed invention, and in after-wards alleging, as against a rival successful in obtaining a patent, that there is no novelty in the invention, it certainly cannot be said to constitute an estoppel. Besides, the defense of want of patentable invention in a patent operates, not merely to exonerate the defendant, but to relieve the public from an asserted monopoly, and the court cannot be prevented from so declaring by the fact that the defendant had ineffectually sought to secure the monopoly for himself.””
3 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.