In re Dardick’s Empirical Analysis
496 F.2d 1234 · 1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2014
2 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on In re Rubinfield · Hugh S. Knowles v. George C. Tibbetts · In re Anthony · In re Rubinfield · Voisinet v. Coglianese
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the invention, when tested, be in a commercially satisfactory stage of development.”
4 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.