In Re Thomas F. Deuel, Yue-Sheng Li, Ned R. Siegel and Peter G. Milner’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
19 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. (2007), Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Inc. v. Schering-Plough Corp. (1997)
19 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
Relies on Soberon v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Lockheed Shipbuilding Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · County of Yakima v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation · Amgen, Inc. v. Chugai Pharmaceutical 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pearson teaches a rigid duct board with a foil, kraft, and scrim outer covering. Hoffmann et al. teaches an inner woven material that provides for a smooth air flow and can be made of glass or other suitable fibers. Schroeder teaches an inner fiber layer which can be made of glass or other compatible fibers that provides smooth air flow. The instant invention claims a rigid fiber board with a scrim, kraft, and foil outer layer and an inner glass fiber mat layer that provides a smooth surface for air flow. It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to use a woven glass fiber fabric on the inside of the board duct of Pearson in order to provide a smooth flow because of the teachings of either Schroeder or Hoffmann et al. Selection of various fibers compatible with glass fiber bonding would have been within the ordinary skill of the art absent unexpected results.”
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.