United States v. Harvey Steel Co.’s Empirical Analysis
196 U.S. 310 · 1905
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 26 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 191 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1969 · most notably Lear, Inc. v. Adkins (1969), Automatic Radio Manufacturing Co. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. (1950)
71 federal appellate · 26 district · 24 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 Railroad Company v. Trimble · Kinsman v. Parkhurst · Marston v. . Swett · Eureka Company v. Bailey Company
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 191 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the heat required for the process was greater than that actually used, that the patent was valid only for a process with the greater heat and that the contract covers no more than the patent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * a licensee, when sued for royalties, is estopped to deny the validity of the patent which he has been using * * 196 U.S. at 317 , 25 S.Ct. at 242 .”
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.