Covert v. Sargent’s Empirical Analysis
38 F. 237 · 1889
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1942
3 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The patented articles are not so superior to' the other fastening devices as to give rise to any cqgent presumption that those-who purchased them of the defendants would have bought them of the plaintiff in preference to the other devices, and without reference to the difference in price, if they could not have bought them elsewhere.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sargent v. Covert“improvement in clasps or thimbles for hitching devices,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sargent v. Covert
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.