In re Bertsch’s Empirical Analysis
132 F.2d 1014 · 1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2010
3 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 Brand v. Thomas · Hansgirg v. Kemmer · National Labor Relations Board v. Gulf Public Service Co. · Hoskins Mfg. Co. v. General Electric Co. · In re Nicolson
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.
“the words 'composed of' may under certain circumstances be given, in patent law, a broader meaning than 'consisting of.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'composed of' should be regarded as synonymous with 'consisting of.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.