In re Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
578 F.2d 301 · 1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1998
4 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. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 103
Relies on United States v. Adams · In re Arkley · In re Samour · Soundscriber Corp. v. United States · 175 Ct. Cl. 644 - Soundscriber Corp. v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(K)nown disadvantages in old devices which would naturally discourage the search for new inventions may be taken into account in determining obviousness.”
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.