In re Van Langenhoven’s Empirical Analysis
458 F.2d 132 · 1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2006
2 federal appellate · 2 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. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 120
Relies on In re Prater · In re Lukach · In re Ruscetta · Martin v. Johnson · In re Hafner
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an application is entitled to the benefit of the filing date of an earlier application as to common subject matter”
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.