Jones v. Bodaness’s Empirical Analysis
189 F.2d 838 · 1951
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1981 · most notably McCullough Tool Co. v. Well Surveys, Inc. (1965), Eimco Corp. v. Peterson Filters & Engineering Co. (1968)
21 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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 33
Relies on Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Union Paper-Bag Machine Company v. Murphy · Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America v. United States · Exhibit Supply Co. v. Ace Patents Corp. · Stearns-Roger Mfg. Co. v. Ruth
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]e must abide by the restrictions to which he submitted as a condition to the issuance of the patent.”
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.