In re Noll’s Empirical Analysis
545 F.2d 141 · 1976
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1994
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. § 100 · 35 U.S.C. § 101 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Gottschalk v. Benson · Dann v. Johnston · In re Bernhart · In re Chatfield
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Freeman“the instant claims, in apparatus form, do not claim or encompass a law of nature, a mathematical formula, or an algorithm”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“mathematical formula.); In re Johnston, 502 F.2d 765, 771 , 183 USPQ 172, 177 (CCPA 1974) (”
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.