In re Bigelow’s Empirical Analysis
194 F.2d 550 · 1952
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1970 · most notably In re Rubinfield (1959), Schwinn Bicycle Co. v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1970)
5 federal appellate ·
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 Nat Lewis Purses, Inc. v. Carole Bags, Inc. · In re Copeman · In re Faustmann · In re Jabour
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not a question here as to whether, standing alone, appellant’s process of coloring the rubber is inventive, but the important question is whether it is inventive over the claimed process of appellant’s reissue patent * *”
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.