Wolter v. Belicka’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.2d 255 · 1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2002
3 federal appellate · 1 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 Joshua C. Conner v. George G. Joris · Marshall B. Alpert v. Harvey L. Slatin · Arthur W. Schnick v. Lawrence E. Fenn · Eastern Rotorcraft Corporation v. The United States v. Sidney G. Sandnes, Edward S. Sandnes, and Arnold G. Sandnes, a Partnership, D.B.A. Sandnes' Sons, Third-Party · Land v. Regan
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the inquiry is not what kind of test was conducted, but whether the test conducted showed that the invention would work as intended in its contemplated use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There are no degrees of reduction to practice; either one has or has not occurred.”
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.