In re Thuau’s Empirical Analysis
135 F.2d 344 · 1943
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently May 1992 · most notably Titanium Metals Corporation of America v. Donald W. Banner, Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks (1985), Old Town Ribbon & Carbon Co. v. Columbia Ribbon & Carbon Mfg. Co. (1947)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
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. § 31
Relies on H. C. White Co. v. Morton E. Converse & Son Co. · Traitel Marble Co. v. U. T. Hunger-Ford Brass & Copper Co. · General Electric Co. v. Hoskins Mfg. Co. · H. K. Regar & Sons, Inc. v. Scott & Williams, Inc. · Gilbert Spruance Co. v. Ellis-Foster 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A new therapeutic product for the treatment of diseased tissue, comprising a condensation product of metacresolsulfonic acid condensed through an aldehyde.” [ 135 F.2d 345 .]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Hack · In re Hack“contrary to the letter of the patent laws that patents should be granted for old compositions of matter based upon new uses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that a patent for a new use for an old substance quite unchanged is not authorized by the patent laws.”
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.