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Hitzeman v. Rutter’s Empirical Analysis

243 F.3d 1345 · 2001

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
January 2017
most recently cited

13 federal appellate · 3 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · In re Gartside · Continental Can Company Usa Inc v. Monsanto Company · Amgen, Inc. v. Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. · Burroughs Wellcome Co. v. Barr Laboratories, Inc.

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

  1. “consistent with the law of anticipation, an inherent property must necessarily be present in the invention described by the count, and it must be so recognized by persons of ordinary skill in the art”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.