Cochrane v. Deener’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 780 · 1876
Citation profile
156 federal appellate · 66 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 485 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Diamond v. Diehr (1981), Gottschalk v. Benson (1972)
156 federal appellate · 66 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 485 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A process is ... an act, or a series of acts, performed wpon the subject matter to be transformed and reduced to a different state or thing. (Emphasis added)”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage““Though some of the corresponding parts of the machinery designated in this combination are not the same in point of form in the two bolting apparatuses, and, separately considered, could not be regarded as identical or conflicting, yet having the same purpose in the combination, and effecting that purpose in substantially the same manner, they are the equivalents of each other in that regard. The claim of the patent is not confined to any particular form of apparatus, but (in regard to the valves, for example), embraces generally any valves for feeding and delivering the meal without allowing the air to pass through.””
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.