In re Yardley’s Empirical Analysis
493 F.2d 1389 · 1974
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2015
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
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 · 35 U.S.C. § 154 · 35 U.S.C. § 171 · 35 U.S.C. § 173 · 35 U.S.C. § 261
Relies on Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co. · Mazer v. Stein · In re Deister Concentrator Co. · Louis Dejonge Company v. Breuker & Kessler Company · Vacheron & Constantin-Le Coultre Watches, Inc. v. Benrus Watch Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress has not provided that an author-inventor must elect between securing a copyright or securing a design patent,”
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.