Freeman v. Altvater’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.2d 854 · 1943
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2014
8 federal appellate · 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 Cuno Engineering Corporation v. Automatic Devices Corporation · Carnegie Steel Company v. Cambria Iron Company · Altoona Publix Theatres, Inc. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp. · Altvater v. Freeman · Risdon Iron & Locomotive Works v. Medart
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the purpose is to reform or alter the description of the invention or to convert a claim from one thing into something else, it must be accomplished by reissue; but if the purpose is to obviate an ambiguity in a specification it must be by disclaimer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.