Steinberg v. Seitz’s Empirical Analysis
517 F.2d 1359 · 1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2023
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Gubelmann v. Gang · Young v. Dworkin · Hugh S. Knowles v. George C. Tibbetts · Hull v. Davenport · In re Anthony
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the invention, when tested, be in a commercially satisfactory stage of development.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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
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.