Jungersen v. Baden’s Empirical Analysis
166 F.2d 807 · 1948
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2009 · most notably Jungersen v. Ostby & Barton Co. (1949), Abbott Laboratories v. Sandoz, Inc. (2009)
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 2
Relies on Sinclair & Carroll Co. v. Interchemical Corp. · Paramount Publix Corporation v. American Tri-Ergon Corporation · Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kalo Inoculant Co. · Dow Chemical Co. v. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. · Toledo Pressed Steel Co. v. Standard Parts, Inc.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is clear from this admission that all but the use of centrifugal casting to force the wax and the metal into their respective moulds was deemed old. The validity of this statement in Jungersen’s British patent is amply demonstrated by the prior art.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Thus plaintiff’s patent can be sustained only if the use of force to cast the wax and the metal is such a change of a known method as to amount to invention. We think it is not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The judge in the Ostby & Barton case referred to the use of centrifugal force as an ‘additional step’ in the art which was both ‘new’ and ‘novel.’ We are forced to disagree.””
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.