In re Van Wanderham’s Empirical Analysis
378 F.2d 981 · 1967
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1993
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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Potts v. Creager · Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Ray-O-Vac Co. · Expanded Metal Co. v. Bradford · Tilghman v. Proctor
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our determination here is not without difficulty. However, we think the difficulty arises from not considering the subject matter as a whole and instead focusing on the scientific principle involved”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Pagliaro
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.