Wagoner v. Barger’s Empirical Analysis
463 F.2d 1377 · 1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Ralston Purina Co. v. Far-Mar-Co, Inc. (1985), Applied Materials, Inc. v. Advanced Semiconductor Materials America, Inc. (1996)
2 federal appellate · 6 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. § 112 · 35 U.S.C. § 120
Relies on Brand v. Thomas · Binstead v. Littmann · Crome v. Morrogh · In re Arkley · In re Smith
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he language which is contained in the [original] application is the legal equivalent of the [Count] language, in the sense that the ‘necessary and only reasonable construction to be given the disclosure [in the original application] by one skilled in the art’ ... is the same as the construction which such person would give the language in the claims of the later [Count], (emphasis in original) 100”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“necessary and only reasonable construction”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is elementary patent law that a patent application is entitled to the benefit of the filing date of an earlier filed application only if the disclosure of the earlier application provides support for the claims of the later application....”
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.