In re Knowlton’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.2d 1357 · 1973
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2014
5 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. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on In re Bernhart · In re Kelley · Palmer v. United States · Techler v. Norstrub
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the applicant chooses to use such language, the statute instructs the interpreter of the claims, e. g., the Patent Office or the courts, as to how such language shall be interpreted.”
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.