Myers v. Croft’s Empirical Analysis
80 U.S. 291 · 1871
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1944 · most notably Williamson v. United States (1908), Fritts v. Palmer (1889)
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Wheeler v. Harris
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All assignments and transfers of the right hereby secured prior to the issuing of the patent shall be null and void.””
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.