Application of Fred P. WINSLOW’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1994 · most notably Tokyo Shibaura Elec. Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corp. (1975), 602 F. Supp. 1071 - Revlon, Inc. v. Carson Products Co. (1985)
7 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.
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.
““We think the proper way to apply the 103 obviousness test to a case like this is to first picture the inventor as working in his shop with the prior art references— which he is presumed to know — hanging on the walls around him.””
3 later decisions 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.