Torrey v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis
184 F. 61 · 1910
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1956
10 federal appellate · 4 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 Mast Foos Company v. Stover Manufacturing Company · Smith v. Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Co. · Smith v. Nichols · Clark Thread Co. v. Willimantic Linen Co. · Belding Manuf'G Co v. Challenge Corn-Planter Co
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any changes made were in degree, proportion, or symmetry. The plow of his patent did the same thing in the same way, and by substantially the same means as before, and, although it produced hotter results, it did not rise to the dignity of invention..” Smith v. Nichols, 21 Wall. 112 , 22 L. Ed. 566 ; Belding Mfg. Co. v. Com Planter Co., 152 U. S. 100 , 14 Sup. Ct. 492 , 88 L. Ed. 370 .”
2 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.