Application of Carl E. Ockert (Five Cases)’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
June 1970
most recently cited
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on In re Ward · In re Barge · In re Russell · In re Jennings
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The well established doctrine that claims in a second application must define a patentably distinct invention over the claims of an appellant's prior patent * * * regardless of the comparative scope of the claims or of the order in which the claims were presented.”
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.