In re Seaborg’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Schering Corporation v. Geneva Pharmaceuticals (2003), SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Apotex Corp. (2005)
4 federal appellate · 1 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. § 101
Relies on General Electric Co. v. Wabash Appliance Corp. · United Carbon Co. v. Binney & Smith Co. · Dewey & Almy Chemical Co. v. Mimex Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The record before us... is replete with showings that the claimed product, if it was produced in the Fermi process, was produced in such minuscule amounts and under such conditions that its presence was undetectable.”
1 later decision 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.