G. & C. Merriam Co. v. Saalfield’s Empirical Analysis
241 U.S. 22 · 1916
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 16 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably Montana v. United States (1979), Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. (1969)
103 federal appellate · 16 district · 2 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 Covell v. Heyman · Byers v. McAuley · Wabash Railroad Company v. Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University · Freeman v. Howe · Krippendorf v. Hyde
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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“familiar law that only a final judgment is res judicata.”
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.