Norton v. Eagle Automatic Can Co.’s Empirical Analysis
59 F. 137 · 1893
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1930
2 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Blanchard v. Putnam · Overman Wheel Co. v. Elliott Hickory Cycle Co. · Norton v. Agle Automatic Can Co. · Onderdonk v. Fanning · National Harrow Co. v. Hanby
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.
““It would have been more considerate to have taken the judgment of the court on the Merriam machine before using it, and risking disobedience of the * * * court and injury to plaintiff.””
1 later decision 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.