In re Sebald’s Empirical Analysis
143 F.2d 366 · 1944
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 1975
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 In re Wagenhorst · In re Tucker · In re Lincoln · In re Tucker
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In In re Tucker and Reeves * * * we originally held that we had an inherent power equivalent to that exercised by courts in other jurisdictions to affirm a decision appealed from if it was right for any reason. Our holding there that we might affirm a decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals upon grounds other than those applied by the Patent Office tribunals attracted great interest among members of the patent bar. Rehearing was granted * * *. Upon due consideration -* * -x- we * * * caxne to the conclusion that [our] former decision was ‘extrajudicial’ and that it should be withdrawn. Our holding in In re Tucker and Reeves * * * has become the settled law of this court, and we have seen no disposition on the part of Congress to broaden our jurisdiction in this respect.” [My emphasis.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Upon due consideration, and especially in view of the decision in Arnold v. Bishop et al., 1 Fed.Cas. 1168, No. 553, and other similar later decisions to the same effect, we followed the holding of Chief Judge Cranch, where he had granted a rehearing, considered the same question which we then were considering, and came to the conclusion that his former decision was ‘extrajudicial’ and that it should be withdrawn. Our holding in In re Tucker and Reeves, 19 C.C.P.A., Patents, 810, 54 F.2d 815 , 12 USPQ 131 , has become the settled law of this court, and we have seen no disposition on the part of Congress to broaden our jurisdiction in this respect.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The narrowness of the scope of our revising powers in this jurisdiction has long been a matter of great concern to the court and members of our bar. We think it is at once apparent that our reviewing or revising powers are confined to such a narrow scope by the statute, which in this respect has not been changed for many generations, as to greatly handicap us in being helpful in cases like the instant one and other cases to which we shall allude.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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