In re Worrest’s Empirical Analysis
201 F.2d 930 · 1953
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 1981 · most notably Autogiro Co. of America v. United States (1967), Application of McKenna (1953)
3 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 144
Relies on Lincoln Engineering Co of Illinois v. Stewart-Warner Corporation · Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kalo Inoculant Co. · In re Bisley · Kirsch Mfg. Co. v. Gould Mersereau Co. · In re Lindberg
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inherent correlation, or cooperation, or coordination of elements which mutually contribute to a common purpose or result, other than mere convenience due to juxtaposition or collection of the units in a common setting.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the question of what constitutes an aggregation in the patent law has been a troublesome one”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“correlation or coordination resulting in the achievement of a single or common purpose”
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.