Stitt v. Eastern R. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
22 F. 649 · 1884
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1963
5 federal appellate ·
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the constitution of the prior thing of itself demonstrates that it is within the principle of the patent, then, perhaps, no use need be established; for it might be said to prove itself. It is not necessary that the prior invention should have been actually used for the purpose contemplated, but it must have been capable of such use.””
2 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.