Hoe v. Knap’s Empirical Analysis
27 F. 204 · 1886
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1945
5 federal appellate ·
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 Mahn v. Harwood · Miller v. Brass Co. · Fay v. Cordesman · Horace Silsby Washburn Race Abel Downs Henry Herrion and Charles Thompson v. Elisha Foote · Wollensak v. Reiher
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is bound either to use the patent himself or allow others to use it on reasonable or equitable terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.