Artemas Brooks v. John Fiske’s Empirical Analysis
56 U.S. 212 · 1853
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2014 · most notably Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. (1995), General Electric Co. v. Wabash Appliance Corp. (1938)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The combination and arrangement ... was the only novelty in the invention”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To infringe, Norcross must use all the parts of Woodworth's combination.”
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.