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204 F.2d 291 · 1953

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
February 1995
most recently cited

2 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 1995 · most notably In re Herr (1967), In re Craig (1969)

2 district ·

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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. § 141

Relies on Overland Motor Co. v. Packard Motor Co. · In re Boyce · Hemphill Co. v. Coe · 28 App. D.C. 535 - Blackford v. Wilder

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “define the additives somewhat differently than in the earlier case,” the later claims”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “directed to essentially the same subject matter.”
    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.