In re Miller’s Empirical Analysis
441 F.2d 689 · 1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2017
2 federal appellate · 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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on In re Swinehart · Application of Joseph D. Fisher · Application of Robert E. Moore and Edward J. Janoski · In re Wakefield · Application of David W. Wilson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]readth is not to be equated with indefiniteness . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“what subject matter falls within the scope of the claims.”
1 later decision 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.