In re Mercier’s Empirical Analysis
515 F.2d 1161 · 1975
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 1994
7 federal appellate ·
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. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 112 · 35 U.S.C. § 132
Relies on Application of Robert E. Moore and Edward J. Janoski · Weiss v. Roschke · In re Wesslau · In re Lindell · In re Lunsford
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ll of the relevant teachings of the cited references must be considered in determining what they fairly teach to one having ordinary skill in the art.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Iris J. Davis
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.