Chittick v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
104 F.2d 818 · 1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 1974 · most notably Frederick F. Blicke v. Gino R. Treves (1957), Joshua C. Conner v. George G. Joris (1957)
4 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 33
Relies on Loom Company v. Higgins · Corona Cord Tire Co. v. Dovan Chemical Corp. · Fageol v. Midboe
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably certain that the subject matter will perform its intended function in actual service, (our emphasis)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gellert v. Wanberg
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.