Frilette v. Kimberlin’s Empirical Analysis
412 F.2d 1390 · 1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Reese v. Hurst (1981), Shu-Hui Chen v. Bouchard (2003)
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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 135
Relies on Patterson v. Hauck · Torsten Hasselstrom and Malcolm C. Henry v. Blaine C. McKusick · Swihart v. United States · Vandenberg v. Reynolds · Ritter v. Rohm & Haas Company
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. A process for upgrading hydrocarbons which comprises contacting a hydroearbonaceous fluid in a conversion zone at elevated temperatures with a crystalline metallic alumino-silicate catalyst having uniform pore openings between about 6 and about 15 Angstrom units, said material being the sole conversion catalyst in said zone and recovering an upgraded hydrocarbon product having a molecular weight no higher than said first named hydroearbonaceous fluid. 2. The process of claim 1 wherein said catalyst comprises a member of the alkaline earth group.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Of course, the designation of the material involved in the ... tests in Lago's records as 'Linde Molecular Sieve 13X calcined ammonium exchange' cannot establish identification since that designation was merely copied by Lago from the label on the bottle in which the sample was given to him by Frilette and was not based on either knowledge or analysis by Lago.”
2 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.