In re Clinton’s Empirical Analysis
527 F.2d 1226 · 1976
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1991
5 federal appellate · 2 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 In re Bergel · Bergel · In re Pantzer · In re Naylor · In re Mercier
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Cottle et al. disclose that freeze concentration of food products and beverages generally may result in the formation of a sediment which can be removed by cooling and clarification. Although Cottle et al. do not disclose sediment formation in coffee extract in particular, we think it would have been within the ability of a worker of ordinary skill in the art aware of Cottle et al. to subject a coffee extract to gradual cooling and to remove any resultant sediment prior to freeze concentration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We first consider the references by themselves and see whether they suggest doing what appellants have done. [Citation omitted.] Flosdorf alone suggests subjecting a coffee extract to a combination of freeze concentration and freeze drying. ( 527 F.2d at 1228 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“8. The process of claim 1 wherein the coffee extract is chilled to between 33° and 45° F. and held for a period sufficient to cause insoluble sediment to form in the extract and then separating said sediment from the extract pri- or to freeze concentration.”
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.