In re Lifton’s Empirical Analysis
189 F.2d 261 · 1951
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Abbott Laboratories v. Sandoz, Inc. (2009), Atlantic Thermoplastics Co. v. Faytex Corp. (1992)
4 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.
Relationships
Relies on In re Moeller · In re Butler · In re Streckert · In re Davis
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has uniformly held that a claim for an article must define the article by its structure and not by the process of making it. The one exception to this rule, where the invention is the article and it is impossible to otherwise define it, is clearly ruled out in the present case because appellant has demonstrated the possibility of proper article claims by including several devoid of process limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This court has repeatedly held that a claim for an article capable of such definition must define the article by its structure and not by the process of making it.”
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.