Rimbach v. Wanmaker’s Empirical Analysis
362 F.2d 561 · 1966
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1975
3 federal appellate ·
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 Frederick F. Blicke v. Gino R. Treves · Application of Bremner · Marshall B. Alpert v. Harvey L. Slatin · Wolfgang B. Klemperer v. Nathan C. Price · Land v. Regan
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“⅜ ⅜ ⅜ the invention of such a composition is not complete unless its utility is either obvious or is established ’by proper tests, regardless of whether the claims contain any specific reference to utility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hradel v. Griffith
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.