Cortelyou v. Charles Eneu Johnson & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
207 U.S. 196 · 1907
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011
7 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCortelyou v. Charles E. Johnson & Co. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Bement Sons v. National Harrow Company · Angle v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. · Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. v. Philadelphia Pneumatic Tool Co. · Cortelyou v. Charles E. Johnson & 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We incline to the opinion that the line should be drawn to include those articles which are either parts of a patented combination or device or which are produced for the sole purpose of being so used and to exclude the staple articles of commerce.””
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.