Snitzer v. Etzel’s Empirical Analysis
465 F.2d 899 · 1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2022
3 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. § 112
Relies on In re Smith · Myers v. Feigelman · Martin v. Johnson · Myers v. Feigelman · Kratz v. Calvert
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the sufficiency of appellant’s [Snitzer’s] specification with respect to the terminal portion of the counts in light of the recent description requirement cases of this court. The board should also consider the sufficiency of appellant’s specification as an enabling disclosure of how to make and use the invention of the counts starting with the premise that the use of trivalent ytterbium as a laser-active ion with a glass host is described as such in appellant’s specification. [Id, 465 F.2d at 903, 59 CCPA at 1247, 175 USPQ at 111.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Snitzer v. Etzel“1. In a laser, a solid luminescent sensitive element of optical regenerative configuration and consisting essentially of a clear glass activated with trivalent ytterbium ions to absorb optical pumping energy in the near infrared region at wavelengths of from 914 to 974 mu and exhibit stimulated emission of radiation in the near infrared region in a waveband of about 6 mu width which has its optical center at 1.015 microns.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Snitzer v. Etzel
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.