Wade v. Metcalf’s Empirical Analysis
16 F. 130 · 1883
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1932
2 federal appellate · 2 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 William McClurg v. Lawrence Kingsland · Brickill v. Mayor of New York
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person wlio purchases of the inventor, or discoverer, or witli his knowledge and consent constructs any newly invented or discovered machine, or other patentable article, prior to the application by the inventor or discoverer for a patent, or who sells or uses one so constructed, shall have the right to use, and vend to others to be used, the specific thing so made or purchased without liability therefor.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“with his knowledge and consent constructs”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wade v. Metcalf
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.