Pointer v. Six Wheel Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
177 F.2d 153 · 1949
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Ethicon, Inc. v. United States Surgical Corp. (1998), Pannu v. Iolab Corp. (1998)
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
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 Eibel Process Co. v. Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. · Diamond Rubber Company of New York v. Consolidated Rubber Tire Company · Lincoln Engineering Co of Illinois v. Stewart-Warner Corporation · Sanitary Refrigerator Co. v. Winters · Loom Company v. Higgins
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He is the inventor and is entitled to the patent who first brought the machine to perfection and made it capable of useful operation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the case of a patent which is a joint invention, a patent issued to one only of the inventors is void”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as the cases just cited show clearly, in order that an invention be truly called a joint invention, it must appear by clear and convincing proof that the two inventors collaborated in evolving the patented device”
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.