Land v. Dreyer’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.2d 383 · 1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Field v. Knowles (1950), In re Kaghan (1967)
3 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 Townsend v. Smith · Rowe v. Holtz · MacGregor v. Johnston · In re Terres · Broadwell v. Long
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The party claiming conception of an invention must show that it was complete and operative and such as would enable a person skilled in the art to reduce the conception to practice without any further research or exercise of the inventive skill. * * * ” (Italics ours.)”
3 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.