In re Draeger’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.2d 572 · 1945
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 1980 · most notably Kropa v. Robie (1951), In re Wertheim (1976)
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
Relies on Brand v. Thomas · Hansgirg v. Kemmer · Wemple v. Peirce · In re Creveling · In re Replogle
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellants' application as filed fails to teach the gist of the invention here involved, and they should not now be permitted, on said disclosure, to extract from an issued patent, claims obviously based upon the disclosure of a critical element not even hinted at in their specification. * * * 30 * * * * * * 31”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Inherency does not mean that a thing might be done, or that it might happen, as in the instant case, one out of twenty odd times; but it must be disclosed, if inherency is claimed, that the thing will necessarily happen.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giambalvo v. Detrick
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.