Allen v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
203 U.S. 347 · 1906
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. (1911), Carbice Corporation of America v. American Patents Development Corporation (1931)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Powell v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Patterson v. Kentucky · Webber v. Virginia · Voight v. Wright
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislation respecting the articles which the state may adopt after the patents have expired it may equally adopt during their continuance. It is only the right to the invention or discovery — the incorporeal right— which the state cannot interfere with. Congress never intended that the patent laws should displace the police powers of the states, meaning by that term those powers by which the health, good order, peace, and general web fare of the community are promoted. Whatever rights are reserved to inventors must be enjoyed in subordination to this general authority of the state over all property within its limits.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Long v. Rockwood
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.