In Re Mary Zurko Thomas Casey Jr Morrie Gasser Judith Hall Clifford Kahn Andrew Mason Paul Sawyer Leslie Kendall and Steven Lipner’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2020
1 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 Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With respect to core factual findings in a determination of patentability, ... the Board cannot simply reach conclusions based on its own understanding or experience — or on its assessment of what would be basic knowledge or common sense. Rather, the Board must point to some concrete evidence in the record in support of these findings. To hold otherwise would render the process of appellate review for substantial evidence on the record a meaningless exercise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that `deficiencies of the cited references cannot be remedied by the Board's general conclusions about what is `basic knowledge' or `common sense.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would constitute a new ground for rejection, not considered or relied upon by the Examiner or the Board”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Velander v. Garner
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.