Torok v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1987
6 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. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 112 · 35 U.S.C. § 121
Relies on State Corp. Commission v. Federal Power Commission · Sutherland Paper Co. v. Grant Paper Box Co. · Oliver United Filters, Inc. v. Silver · O'Rourke Engineering Const. Co. v. McMullen · Sutherland Paper Co. v. Grant Paper Box Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Divisional applications. If two or more independent and distinct inventions are claimed in one application, the Com missioner may require the application to be restricted to one of the inventions. If the other invention is made the subject of a divisional application ■which complies with the requirements of section 120 of this title it shall be entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the original application. A patent issuing on an application with respect to which a requirement for restriction under this section has been made, or on an application filed as a result of such a requirement, shall not be used as a reference either in the Patent Office or in the courts against a divisional application or against the original application or any patent issued on either of them, if the divisional application is filed before the issuance of the patent on the other application. * * *”
3 later decisions 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.