Glue Company v. Upton’s Empirical Analysis
97 U.S. 3 · 1877
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1960 · most notably Mahn v. Harwood (1884), Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co. v. Coe (1938)
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It thus appears that the invention claimed is not any new combination of ingredients, creating a different product, or any new mechanical means by which a desirable change in the form oí a common article of commerce is obtained. but it consists only of the ordinary flake glue reduced to small particles by mechanical division.””
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.