In re Wright’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.2d 1124 · 1977
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Hockerson-Halberstadt Inc American Sporting Goods Corp v. Avia Group International Inc Reebok International Ltd (2000), In re Kahn (2006)
11 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. § 103
Relies on Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island v. Wingate Corp. · In re Lamberti · In re Chapman · In re Mason · In re Kuhle
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent any written description in the specification of quantitative values, arguments based on measurement of a drawing are of little value.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“clearly points to the use of a chime length of roughly ½ to 1 inch for a whiskey barrel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he mere age of a reference is not persuasive of unobviousness absent evidence that the art tried and failed to solve the problem notwithstanding knowledge of the reference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Anton W. Stark
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.