Cooper v. Downing’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1951
2 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 Railway Company v. Sayles
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While we do not gather from the original papers that the construction was intended to be such as is required by the issue, it is readily conceivable that those skilled in the art, guided by their special knowledge regarding the pressing of iron plates, would know that Downing's car would naturally be built in such a way that it would necessarily satisfy the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coast v. Dubbs
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.