In re Jennings’s Empirical Analysis
182 F.2d 207 · 1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Litton Systems, Inc. v. Whirlpool Corp. (1984), La Gear Inc v. Thom McAn Shoe Company (1993)
2 federal appellate ·
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.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be compared with something in existence, not with something that might be brought into existence by selecting individual features from prior art and combining them”
9 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.