Application of Kenneth B. Cofer’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1989 · most notably In re Anthony (1969), In re Joly (1967)
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 Williams · In re Adamson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the prior art suggests the particular structure or form of the compound or composition as well as suitable methods of obtaining that structure or form”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evidence produced before the Patent Office”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.