Werk v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
249 U.S. 130 · 1919
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2010 · most notably Smith v. Pro Football, Inc. (1978), Donner v. Sheer Pharmacal Corp. (1933)
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
reviewedWerk v. Parker (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on McClain v. Ortmayer · Atlantio Works v. Brady Brady · Hollister v. Benedict Burnham Manuf'G · Brown v. Piper · Pennsylvania Co v. Locomotive Engine Safety Truck 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And this, in our opinion, goes no further than a mere mechanical adaptation of familiar materials and methods, not rising to the dignity of invention."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“abundantly from standard works accessible in every considerable library.” Werk v. Parker, 1919, 249 U.S. 130, 133 , 39 S.Ct. 197, 198 , 63 L.Ed. 514 .”
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.