Duluth Co v. Roy’s Empirical Analysis
173 U.S. 587 · 1899
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1981 · most notably Burke v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1914), Joseph Parker Camp v. Kate Willard Boyd (1913)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Williams v. Nottawa · Lee v. Johnson · Williams v. United States · Ard v. Brandon · Sparks v. Pierce
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“_ “That the claimant against patent must so far bring himself within the laws as to entitle him, if not obstructed or prevented, to complete his claim. It does not mean that at the moment of time the patent issued it should have been awarded to him. The facts performed by him may or may not have reached- that completeness, may not have reached it, and yet justify relief; as in Ard v. Brandon, 156 U. S. 537 (15 Sup. Ct. 406: 39 L. Ed. 524 ) and in Morrison v. Stalnaker, 104 U. S. 213 ( 26 L. Ed. 741 .) And because of the well-established principles that, where an individual in the prosecution of a right has done that which the law requires him to do, and he has failed to attain his right by the misconduct or neglect of a public officer, the law will protect him.””
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.