Fred L. Nelson v. D. M. Batson’s Empirical Analysis
322 F.2d 132 · 1963
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably Pennwalt Corporation, Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Durand-Wayland, Inc., Appellee/cross-Appellant (1987), Hilton Davis Chemical Co. v. Warner-Jenkinson Co. (1995)
14 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
Relies on Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Sanitary Refrigerator Co. v. Winters · General Electric Co. v. Wabash Appliance Corp. · Aro Manufacturing Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co. · Union Paper-Bag Machine Company v. Murphy
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.”
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.