In re Kuhle’s Empirical Analysis
526 F.2d 553 · 1975
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2015
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. § 103
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Presbyterian Church v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church · Flour City Architectural Metals v. Alpana Aluminum Products, Inc. · National Connector Corporation v. Malco Manufacturing Company, a Partnership, Amphenol Corporation, and Malco Manufacturing Company, Inc., Malco Manufacturing Company, a Partnership, Amphenol Corporation, and Malco Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. National Connector Corporation · In re Howard
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Use of such means of electrical connection in lieu of those used in the references solves no stated problem and would be an obvious matter of design choice within the skill in the art.”
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.