In Re Jerre M Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Mellin v. Flood Brook Union School District (2001), 56 Fed. Cl. 652 - Commonwealth Edison Co. v. United States (2003)
13 district · 1 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 Montana v. United States · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp. · Johnson v. Righetti · Southern Pacific Railroad 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the issue is identical to one decided in the first action; (2) the issue was actually litigated in the first action; (3) resolution of the issue was essential to a final judgment in the first action; and (4) plaintiff had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the issue in the first action.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n any reexamination proceeding under this chapter, the patent owner will be permitted to propose any amendment to his patent and a new claim or claims thereto, in order to distinguish the invention as claimed from the prior art cited under the provisions of section 301 of this title, or in response to a decision adverse to the patentability of a claim of a patent. No proposed amendment or new claim enlarging the scope of a claim of the patent will be permitted in a reexamination proceeding under this chapter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This court has held: A claim of a reissue application is broader in scope than the original claims if it contains within its scope any conceivable apparatus or process which would not have infringed the original patent. A reissue claim that is broader in any respect is considered to be broader than the original claims even though it may be narrower in other respects.”
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.