In Re Brian W. Baird, Art F. Diaz, William H. Dickstein and Charles M. Seymour’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2016
4 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 In Re John R Beattie · In Re Graeme I. Bell, Leslie B. Rall and James P. Merryweather · In re Burckel · In Re Rita S. Jones, Michael T. Chirchirillo and Johnny L. Burns
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that a claimed compound may be encompassed by a disclosed generic formula does not by itself render that compound obvious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.