Harrison v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1975
4 district · 7 state decisions
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 Littlefield v. Perry · Ware v. Allen · Hendrie v. Sayles · United States v. Gusman · Edelin v. Sanders
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the assignment was intended to operate upon the perfect legal title which the inventor then had a right to obtain, because it requested, that the patent might issue to the assignee, there was no sound reason for restraining the assignment to the inchoate interest and requiring a further transfer of the patent.””
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.