Burger Train Systems, Inc. v. Ballard’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.2d 1377 · 1977
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1998
5 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. § 171
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Gorham Company v. White · Exhibit Supply Co. v. Ace Patents Corp. · McCullough Tool Co. v. Well Surveys, 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“points all one way and is susceptible of no reasonable inferences that sustain the position of the party against whom the motion is made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it can be determined that the only feature which renders the design patentable is not on the allegedly infringing device.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if it does the same work in substantially the same way so as to accomplish substantially the same result.”
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.