Application of William A. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably Helifix Limited v. Blok-Lok Ltd (2000), In re Foster (1965)
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
Relies on In re LeGrice · Application of Eric D. Brown · E. I. Dupont De Nemours and Company v. David L. Ladd, Commissioner of Patents, and Luther H. Hodges, Secretary of Commerce · In re Doyle · Application of Josef Fried and Josef E. Herz
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The uncertainty which pervades the teaching of the reference leads us to conclude that Emeleus cannot properly be held an enabling disclosure. 52 CCPA at 863 , 339 F.2d at 241 , 144 USPQ at 45.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Donohue
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.