Burns v. Curtis’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.2d 588 · 1949
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Perma Research & Development v. Singer Co. (1976), Joshua C. Conner v. George G. Joris (1957)
8 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Petersen v. Thomas · Chandler v. Mock · Hurd v. Smith · Preston v. White · McKee v. Stevens
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he invention in issue could not be reduced to practice until it was demonstrated that it was satisfactory for use on airplanes at high altitudes.” At 590 of 172 F.2d. # ^ # “It seems unlikely that the conditions encountered in the use of an airplane, as regards such matters as temperature, vibration, and pressure, could be duplicated in a laboratory.” Ibid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is well settled that efforts to exploit an invention commercially do not constitute diligence in reducing it to practice. See Hurd v. Smith, 97 F.2d 147 , 25 CCPA 1137 ; Preston v. White, 97 F.2d 160 , 25 CCPA 1219 ; and Petersen v. Thomas, 56 App.D.C. 113 , 10 F.2d 908 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fitzgerald v. Arbib“the only test required to establish a reduction to practice of the invention in issue is a test of heating uniformity.”
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.