In re Blaisdell’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2003
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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 102
Relies on Elizabeth v. Pavement Co. · Smith Griggs Manuf'G Co v. Sprague · Electric Storage Battery Co. v. Shimadzu · Egbert v. Lippmann · Hall v. Macneale
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The use of an invention by the inventor himself, or of any other person under his direction, by way of experiment, and in order to bring the invention to perfection, has never been regarded as such a [public] use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Smith
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.