In re Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
476 F.2d 1370 · 1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2005
3 federal appellate ·
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 Antle · In re Moore · Application of Raymond J. Heldt
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.
“the similarities and differences in structure and function of the inventions disclosed in the references * * * carry far greater weight”
3 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.