Blanc v. Curtis’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.2d 395 · 1941
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1967
12 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
Relies on Sanitary Refrigerator Co. v. Winters · Sun Ray Gas Corp. v. Bellows-Claude Neon Co. · National Battery Co. v. Richardson Co. · Ford Motor Co. v. Gordon Form Lathe Co. · Baldwin Rubber Co. v. Paine & Williams Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The claim of a patent must be read in the light of the invention disclosed and cannot be given a construction broader than the teachings of the patent as shown by the drawings and specifications.” Blanc v. Curtis, 6 Cir., 1941, 119 F.2d 395, 397 .”
3 later decisions 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.