Morey v. Lockwood’s Empirical Analysis
75 U.S. 230 · 1868
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1987 · most notably Westinghouse v. Boyden Power Brake Co. (1898), Pennwalt Corporation, Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Durand-Wayland, Inc., Appellee/cross-Appellant (1987)
7 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 Morey v. Lockwood
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are protected ... against the use of any form ... that embodies substantially their ideas and mode of operation”
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.