Scott v. Finney’s Empirical Analysis
34 F.3d 1058 · 1994
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Mahurkar v. C.R. Bard, Inc. (1996), Cooper v. Goldfarb (1998)
10 federal appellate · 9 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. § 102
Relies on Bibby v. United States · Marathon Oil Co. v. United States · Thompson v. Thompson · Corona Cord Tire Co. v. Dovan Chemical Corp. · Hybritech Inc. v. Monoclonal Antibodies, Inc.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In tests showing the invention's solution of a problem, the courts have not required commercial perfection nor absolute replication of the circumstances of the invention's ultimate use.... [Although,] more scrupulous testing [is prescribed] under circumstances approaching actual use when the problem includes many uncertainties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Testing for the full safety and effectiveness of a prosthetic device is more properly left to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Title 35 does not demand that such human testing occur within the confines of Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the testing should demonstrate ` the soundness of the principles of operation of the invention.' The inventor need show only that the invention is `suitable' for its intended use.”
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.