In re Millett’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1930
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 Wright v. Yuengling
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. In a steam gage, the Bourdon tube and the part to which it is secured, the joint between the two being unsoldered and held solely by frictional contact, as explained. “2. In a steam gage, the Bourdon tube and the part to which it is secured, the joint between the two being unsoldered and held by frictional contact, as explained. “3. In a steam gage, the Bourdon tube and the part to which it is secured, the joint between the two being unsoldered, and held by a frictional binding screw-joint connection as explained. “4. In a steam gage, the Bourdon tube and the part to which it is secured, the joint between the two being unsoldered and tapering, as explained. “5. In a steam gage, the Bourdon tube D, having the threaded tapered end, d, in combination with the head, C, having the correspondingly threaded tapered opening C2, as explained. “6. A Bourdon tube, having a reduced elastic portion and enlarged or reinforced threaded ends, in combination with a gage case having threaded portions which engage the threaded ends of the tube. “1. The Bourdon tube D, having the reduced elastic body portion, d, and the enlarged or reinforced end portions, in combination with the gage case, having correspondingly threaded portions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Millett v. Allen
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.