Bosies v. Benedict’s Empirical Analysis
27 F.3d 539 · 1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2012
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · McNamara v. County of San Diego Department of Social Services · Oneida Motor Freight, Inc. v. United Jersey · H. K. Porter Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to believe that the existence of a fact is more probable than its nonexistence before [he] may find in favor of the party who has the burden to persuade the [judge] of the fact's existence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the definite and permanent idea of the complete and operative invention”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re Scott T Jolley
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.