Thayer v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
20 F. 693 · 1884
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1955
7 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 Coffin v. Ogden
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tbe evidence of prior invention is usually entirely witbin tbe control of tbe party asserting it, and so wide is tbe opportunity for deception, artifice, or mistake, tbat tbe authorities áre almost unanimous in bolding that it must be estab lished by proof clear, positive', and unequivocal. Nothing must bo left to speculation or conjecture;” and cited several authorities in support of this position.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.