Hedgewick v. Akers’s Empirical Analysis
497 F.2d 905 · 1974
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2017
4 federal appellate · 4 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. § 104 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on Electric Storage Battery Co. v. Shimadzu · Agawam Company v. Jordan · Henry St. Pierre v. Draper M. Harvey, Draper M. Harvey v. Henry St. Pierre · Egnot v. Looker · Beall v. Ormsby
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.
“Communication of a complete conception must be sufficient to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to construct and successfully operate the invention.”
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.