In re Lapworth’s Empirical Analysis
451 F.2d 1094 · 1971
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2006
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
Relies on In re Laverne
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is distinctiveness in overall appearance of an object, when compared with the prior art, rather than minute details or small variations in configuration. . . that constitutes the test of design patentability.”
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.