In re Malagari’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.2d 1297 · 1974
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Ormco Corporation v. Align Technology Inc (2006), In re Wertheim (1976)
11 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Becket v. Coe · In re Wiggins · In re Caveney · In re Mehta · Application of Sabatino R. Orfeo and Kevin P. Murphy
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not convinced that there was sufficient teaching away in the art to overcome [the] strong case of obviousness”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the existence of unexpected properties in the range claimed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the art in any material respect taught away”
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.