In Re Lavaughn F. Watts, Jr’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 19 Vet. App. 103 - L IZZIE K. M AY FIELD v. R. James Nicholson (2005), Angel Vazquez -Flores v. James B. Peake (2008)
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 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United States · Palmer v. Hoffman · Colorado Interstate Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission · In re Gartside
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.
“On appeal to this Court, ‘we have before us a comprehensive record that contains the arguments and evidence presented by the parties’ and our review of the Board’s decision is confined to the ‘four corners’ of that record. Just as it is important that the PTO in general be barred from raising new arguments on appeal to justify or support a decision of the Board, it is important that the applicant challenging a decision not be permitted to raise arguments on appeal that were not presented to the Board.”
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.