In re Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
173 F.2d 1015 · 1949
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably KeyStone Retaining Wall Systems, Inc. v. Westrock, Inc. (1993), Contessa Food Products, Inc. v. Conagra, Inc. (2002)
5 federal appellate · 4 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 In re Faustmann · Wagner Typewriter Co. v. F. S. Webster Co. · North British Rubber Co. v. Racine Rubber Tire Co. of New York, Inc. · Williams Calk Co. v. Neverslip Mfg. Co. · Williams Calk Co. v. Kemmerer
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been held repeatedly that articles which are concealed or obscure in normal use are not proper subjects for design patents, since their appearance cannot be a matter of concern.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Ajrticles which are concealed or obscure are not proper subjects for design patents, since their appearance cannot be a matter of concern.... Almost every article is visible when it is made and while it is being applied to the position in which it is to be used. Those special circumstances, however, do not justify the granting of a design patent on an article such as here under consideration which is always concealed in its normal and intended use.”
4 later decisions 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.