Thorn Wire Hedge Co v. Washburn Moen Manuf'G Co Moen Manuf'G Co’s Empirical Analysis
159 U.S. 423 · 1895
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Garrett v. Co (1942), Garrett v. Moore-McCormack Co. (1942)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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 Lane & Bodley Co. v. Locke · Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Co. v. Chicago Galvanized Wire Fence Co. · Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Co. v. Chicago Galvanized Wire Fence Co. · Hager v. Homson et al.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is said that complainant * * * feared that litigation to recover its demands would impair its receipt of future royalties * * *. The complainant’s excuse, in this instance, that it preferred for prudential reasons * * [not] to assert its existing demands, is entitled to a less favorable consideration by a court of equity than if its conduct had been that of mere inaction.””
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.