In re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2010
5 federal appellate ·
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 · 35 U.S.C. § 120
Relies on Risse Horlein · Thomas Lynn Fields v. Lloyd H. Conover and Robert B. Woodward · In re Fried · H. F. Campbell Company (Formerly H. F. Campbell Construction Company) v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Application of Walter Grimme, Werner Keil and Heinrich Schmitz
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ppellant has no basis on which the disclosure in the 1947 application may be treated as a description of the subject matter now claimed.”
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.