In re Kepler’s Empirical Analysis
132 F.2d 130 · 1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently November 1971 · most notably In re Libby (1958), In re Finley (1949)
5 federal appellate ·
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.
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A patent should not be granted for appellant’s discovery of a result that would flow naturally from the teachings of the prior art.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Swentzel · In re Inman
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.