Lumiere v. Mae Edna Wilder, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
261 U.S. 174 · 1923
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 30 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Cannon Mfg Co v. Cudahy Packing Co (1925), Stonite Products Co. v. Melvin Lloyd Co. (1942)
24 federal appellate · 30 district · 9 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 Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. v. McKibbin · Rosenberg Bros. v. Curtis Brown Co. · Camp v. Gress · In re Keasbey & Mattison Co. · Bank of America v. Whitney Central National Bank
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ordinarily a civil suit to enforce a personal liability under a federal statute can be brought only in the district of which the defendant is an inhabitant. Judicial Code, § 51. In a few classes of eases, a carefully limited right to sue elsewhere has been given. In patent cases it is the district of which the defendant is an inhabitant, or in which acts of infringement have been committed, and the defendant has a regular and established place of business. Judicial Code, § 48; W. S. Tyler Co. v. Ludlow-Saylor Wire Co., 236 U. S. 723 [ 35 S. Ct. 458 , 59 L. Ed. 80S].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f such facts are sufficient to give jurisdiction, a suit upon a copyright may be brought in any district of the United States in which one who is an officer or agent of a defendant is served with process; although neither plaintiff nor defendant has his residence or a place of business there, and although the copyright was not infringed there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That jurisdiction over a corporation cannot be acquired in a district in which it has no place of business and is not found, merely by serving process upon an executive officer temporarily therein, even if he is there on business of the company, has been settled.””
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.