In re Herz’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 549 · 1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2015
1 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 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on Norton Company, Appellant-Cross v. Carborundum Company, Appellee-Cross · In re Gray · In re Janakirama-Rao · In re Saether
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.
“materially affect the basic and novel characteristics”
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.