Vance v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
66 U.S. 427 · 1861
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1995 · most notably McClain v. Ortmayer (1891), Campbell v. City of Haverhill (1895)
42 federal appellate · 5 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 The United States v. Thomas Reid and Edward Clements · Benjamin Sims v. Thomas Hundley
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nless the combination is maintained, the whole of the invention fails. The combination is an entirety; if one of the elements is given up, the thing claimed disappears.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the patentee not only described, but claimed the front flue ... as a material and important part of the arrangement”
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.