In re Selmi’s Empirical Analysis
156 F.2d 96 · 1946
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1968 · most notably In re W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. (1946), In re Eisenhut (1957)
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 Dow Chemical Co. v. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. · In re Lewis · In re Swenson · In re Greider · In re Fischer
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The point or range alleged to be critical must correspond to a physical phenomenon and on that basis appellants have the burden of proving that they have invented a new steel having characteristics or qualities of utility that are new and materially different from the steel disclosed by the art of record.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Bourdon · In re Bourdon
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.