In re Silver’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas))
Relationships
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 1 (American Inventors Protection Act of 1999) · 35 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Topliff v. Topliff · Sperry v. State of Florida the Florida Bar · In Re Prudential Insurance Co. of America · EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Robinson · Texas Lottery Commission v. First State Bank of DeQueen
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When determining the ordinary meaning of a word, we frequently consult dictionaries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Garcia v. Pruski
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.