Wiesner v. Weigert’s Empirical Analysis
666 F.2d 582 · 1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2007
2 federal appellate · 3 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 Corona Cord Tire Co. v. Dovan Chemical Corp. · Joshua C. Conner v. George G. Joris · Reese v. Hurst · In re Fielder · Landon v. Ginzton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an invention is not reduced to practice until its practice or utility is demonstrated pursuant to its intended use.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the embodiments tested ... were not considered successful for their intended purpose and therefore had no recognized utility”). 8 .”
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.