In re Naber’s Empirical Analysis
494 F.2d 1405 · 1974
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1990
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 Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · In re Lindell · In re Murch · In re Tiffin · In re Murch
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if one of ordinary skill in the art were moved to combine the references, there would be no recognition that the problem of combustible deposits had been solved”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no evidence that those skilled in the art were aware of the problem ... which is the primary objective of appellants' invention”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Dillon · In Re Diane M Dillon
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.