Dick v. Struthers’s Empirical Analysis
25 F. 103 · 1885
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1909
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 Root v. Railway Co. · Beecher Manuf'G Co v. Atwater Manuf'G Co · Burdell v. Comstock · Davis v. Smith · Gottfried v. Moerlein
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the law of Pennsylvania, Ames is the mere custodian of the property of the corporation. By virtue of his appointment as receiver, no title to the patent passed from the corporation to him. Doubtless it was competent for the court appointing him to authorize him to bring suit on the patent, but then it should have been brought in the name of the corporation. The objection therefore that the plaintiff, Ames, has no title upon which to maintain this suit, the same being in a corporation, which is not a party hereto, is well taken, and for this cause the demurrer is sustained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ball v. Coker
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.