Collins v. Owen’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.2d 884 · 1962
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1983
19 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Pendergrass v. New York Life Ins. · Builders Steel Co. v. Commissioner · Trico Products Corp. v. Delman Corp. · Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. George A. Breon & Co. · Kemart Corp. v. Printing Arts Research Laboratories, Inc.
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.
“In the trial of a nonjury case, it is virtually impossible for a trial judge to commit reversible error by receiving incompetent evidence, whether objected to or not. An appellate court will not reverse a judgment in a nonjury case because of the admission of incompetent evidence, unless all of the competent evidence is insufficient to support the judgment or unless it affirmatively appears that the incompetent evidence induced the court to make an essential finding which would not otherwise have been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country * * * more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the United States * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test for determining the adequacy of the description of an invention in a foreign publication is, as the trial court recognized, that `the knowledge”
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.