In re Beplate’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.2d 506 · 1935
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1954
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 Braren v. Horner · Hall v. Shimadzu · In re Abrahamsen
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.
““Since all the claims are structural claims, we think they must be tested, in the light of the prior art, by the structure which they define, and not by the use which is to be made of the completed device, and we are unable to discern wherein there are in appellants’ combination as described any modifications of the structural features of the cited art which may properly be held to involve invention as distinguished from mechanical skill.” In re Beplate, 1935, 77 F.2d 506, 508 , 22 C.C.P.A., Patents, 1232. (Emphasis added.)”
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.