In re Vickers’s Empirical Analysis
141 F.2d 522 · 1944
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably Gentry Gallery, Inc. v. Berkline Corp. (1998), Spectra-Physics, Inc. v. Coherent, Inc. (1987)
1 federal appellate · 2 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. § 33
Relies on Continental Paper Bag Company v. Eastern Paper Bag Company · In re Kirschbraun · In re Matzner · Excelsior Drum Works v. Sheip & Vandegrift, Inc.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an applicant ... is generally allowed claims, when the art permits, which cover more than the specific embodiment shown.”
2 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.