Virtue v. Creamery Package Manufacturing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
227 U.S. 8 · 1913
Citation profile
134 federal appellate · 35 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 296 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Omnia Commercial Co. v. United States (1923), Standard Oil Co. v. United States (1931)
134 federal appellate · 35 district · 18 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
reviewedVirtue v. Creamery Package Mfg. Co. (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Swift Company v. United States · Huntington v. Attrill · Addyston Pipe Steel Company v. United States · Northern Securities Company v. United States
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 296 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Patents would be of little value if infringers of them could not be notified of the consequences of infringement or proceeded against in the courts.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, . . . shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor . . ..”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Of course, patents and patent rights cannot be made a cover for a violation of law. * * * But patents are not so used when the rights conferred upon them by law are only exercised.””
2 later decisions 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.