Trabon Engineering Corp. v. Dirkes’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.2d 24 · 1943
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 1983 · most notably Lyon v. Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. (1955), The Cold Metal Process Company and the Union National Bank of Youngstown, Ohio, Trustee v. Republic Steel Corporation, Republic Steel Corporation v. The Cold Metal Process Company and the Union National Bank of Youngstown, Ohio, Trustee (1956)
27 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. § 31
Relies on Diamond Rubber Company of New York v. Consolidated Rubber Tire Company · Cuno Engineering Corporation v. Automatic Devices Corporation · Topliff v. Topliff · Potts v. Creager · Carnegie Steel Company v. Cambria Iron Company
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(S)ometimes achievement is revolutionary, but more often an inventor begins where others leave off, and perceives the vital forward step to which predecessors have been blind.”
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.