Harder v. Hayward’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.2d 256 · 1945
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2016
4 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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 31 · 35 U.S.C. § 33 · 35 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on United States v. Stewart · Godfrey v. Eames · In re Roberts · Clark Blade & Razor Co. v. Gillette Safety Razor Co. · In re Febrey
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case at bar, appellee, in filing his second [divisional] application * * * offered no reason whatever why the claims embraced in his second application were not presented in his original application. As pointed out by appellants, so far as the record shows, Hayward’s added improvement in his second application may have been in Hayward’s possession since before he filed his first application, and was omitted for reasons best known to himself; or it may have been an improvement conceived as an afterthought, such as either he or anyone else could have made after the filing of his original application.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Campbell
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.