Westinghouse v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
43 F. 894 · 1888
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1927
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of tbe opinion that with the expiration of his patent the plaintiff’s right to forbid anybody to make, sell, or use the articles to which this invention refers expires.””
2 later decisions 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.