In re Fullam’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.2d 247 · 1947
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1963
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. § 33
Relies on General Electric Co. v. Wabash Appliance Corp. · Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. v. Walker · Sylvania Industrial Corp. v. Visking Corp. · Heidbrink v. McKesson · Koebel v. Coe
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.
“functional in claiming merely the desired result well known to and sought after by workers skilled in the art.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not in terms of what it is, but of what it does. [Emphasis ours.]”
1 later decision 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.