Breen v. Henshaw’s Empirical Analysis
472 F.2d 1398 · 1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2010
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
Relies on Joshua C. Conner v. George G. Joris · Heard v. Burton · Heard v. Burton · Langer v. Kaufman · Breen v. Richmond
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well-settled that conception and reduction to practice cannot be established nunc pro tunc. There must be contemporaneous recognition and appreciation of the invention represented by the counts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“indication in the contemporaneous record”
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.