In re Nuijten’s Empirical Analysis
500 F.3d 1346 · 2007
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably In re Bilski (2008), SiRF Technology, Inc. v. International Trade Commission (2010)
10 federal appellate · 10 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 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 35 U.S.C. § 100 · 35 U.S.C. § 101 · 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 112 · 35 U.S.C. § 171
Relies on Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Saint Francis College v. Al-Khazraji · Cybor Corporation v. Fas Technologies, Inc., and Fastar Ltd., Defendants-Cross · Bonito Boats, Inc. v. Thunder Craft Boats, Inc. · Diamond v. Diehr
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a claim covers material not found in any of the four statutory categories, that claim falls outside the plainly expressed scope of § 101 even if the subject matter is otherwise new and useful.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a matter of both claim construction and statutory construction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Claim construction is a question of law ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.