Zurko’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
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How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2017
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
Relies on Wl Gore Associates Inc v. Garlock Inc · Panduit Corporation v. Dennison Manufacturing Co · In re Sponnoble · In Re Graeme I. Bell, Leslie B. Rall and James P. Merryweather · In re Sponnoble
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the artisan would have been led from these teachings to take the trusted command parsed in an untrusted environment and submitted to the trusted computing environment, as taught by UNIX, and to display the parsed command to the user for confirmation prior to execution, as suggested by [FILER2].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Mary E. Zurko, Thomas A. Casey, Jr., Morrie Gasser, Judith S. Hall, Clifford E. Kahn, Andrew H. Mason, Paul D. Sawyer, Leslie R. Kendall, and Steven B. Lipner · In Re Mary Zurko Thomas Casey Jr Morrie Gasser Judith Hall Clifford Kahn Andrew Mason Paul Sawyer Leslie Kendall and Steven Lipner“) for clear error, an incorrect standard of review. 2 The Board decision at issue, Ex parte Zurko, No. 94-3967 (Bd. Pat. Apps. & Int. Aug. 4, 1995), sustained the rejection of U.S. Patent Application No. 07/479,666 (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Mary E. Zurko, Thomas A. Casey, Jr., Morrie Gasser, Judith S. Hall, Clifford E. Kahn, Andrew H. Mason, Paul D. Sawyer, Leslie R. Kendall, and Steven B. Lipner · In Re Mary Zurko Thomas Casey Jr Morrie Gasser Judith Hall Clifford Kahn Andrew Mason Paul Sawyer Leslie Kendall and Steven Lipner“the Board's finding that the prior art teaches, either explicitly or inherently, the step of obtaining confirmation over a trusted pathway [was] clearly erroneous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Mary E. Zurko, Thomas A. Casey, Jr., Morrie Gasser, Judith S. Hall, Clifford E. Kahn, Andrew H. Mason, Paul D. Sawyer, Leslie R. Kendall, and Steven B. Lipner · In Re Mary Zurko Thomas Casey Jr Morrie Gasser Judith Hall Clifford Kahn Andrew Mason Paul Sawyer Leslie Kendall and Steven Lipner
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.