Wood & Brundage’s Empirical Analysis
22 U.S. 603 · 1824
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably United States v. American Bell Telephone Co. (1888), Agfa Corporation v. Creo Products Inc. (2006)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the opinion of the Court . . . that a peremptory mandamus issue to the Judge of the District Court . . . that he award a process, in the nature of a scire facias, to the patentees, to show cause why the patent should not be repealed . . . and that, if the issue so joined be an issue of fact, then the trial thereof to be by a jury; if an issue of law, then by the Court, as in other cases.”
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.