Horace Silsby Washburn Race Abel Downs Henry Herrion and Charles Thompson v. Elisha Foote’s Empirical Analysis
55 U.S. 218 · 1852
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably MARKMAN Et Al. v. WESTVIEW INSTRUMENTS, INC., Et Al. (1996), Slocum v. New York Life Insurance (1913)
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Nathaniel Crane v. The Lessee of Henry Gage Morris et al. · James D'Wole Junior v. David Jacques · Doe on the Demise of Elmore v. Grymes
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The construction of the claim was undoubtedly for the court.”
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.