Eddy W. Eckey v. Robert C. Watson, Commissioner of Patents’s Empirical Analysis
268 F.2d 891 · 1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2002
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
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 Buchner v. United States
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The time for filing the notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (§ 1.302) ... is two months from the date of the decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. If a request for consideration [sic, reconsideration] or modification of the decision is filed within the time period provided under § 1.197(b) ..., the time for filing an appeal ... shall expire two months after action on the request.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“within such time after [the Board's] decision, not less than sixty days, as the Commissioner appoints.”
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.