Jacobs v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
74 U.S. 295 · 1868
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1951 · most notably Dolbear v. American Bell Telephone Co. (1888), Fond Du Lac County v. May (1890)
16 federal appellate · 6 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But waiving all these difficulties as hypercritical, and assuming the correctness of the positions taken, that whatever is neither a machine, nor a manufacture, nor a composition of matter, must (ex necessitate) be ‘an art’, that a jail is a thing ‘made,’ and that the patent is for the ‘process of making it,' let us examine the case as presented by the bill and answer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“improvement in the construction of prisons,”
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.