Corbett v. Chisholm’s Empirical Analysis
568 F.2d 759 · 1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2024
8 federal appellate · 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. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 135
Relies on Chapman v. Wintroath · Engineering Development Laboratories v. Radio Corp. of America · Chapman v. Beede · Squires v. Corbett · Stalego v. Heymes
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.
“A claim which is the same as, or for the same or substantially the same subject matter as, a claim of an issued patent may not be made in any application unless such a claim is made prior to one year from the date on which the patent was granted.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re McGrew · Adair v. Carter“so that the patentee might be more secure in his property right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No amendment for the first time presenting or asserting a claim which is the same as, or for substantially the same subject matter as, a claim of an issued patent may be made in any application unless such amendment is filed within one year from the date on which said patent was granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Sasse
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.