Babcock v. Clarkson’s Empirical Analysis
63 F. 607 · 1894
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018
11 federal appellate · 3 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 Sturm v. Boker · Brant v. Virginia Coal and Iron Company et al. · Ball & Socket Fastener Co. v. Ball Glove Fastening Co. · Brazee v. Schofield · Standard Folding Bed Co. v. Osgood
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I do not intend to express my opinion as to the validity of Wright’s patent. I will assume, for the purpose of my judgment, that it is worth nothing at all. But this is certain: that the defendant sold and assigned that patent to the plaintiffs as a valid one, and, having done so, he cannot derogate from his own grant. It does not lie in his mouth to sqy that the patent is not good.””
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.