In re Burckel’s Empirical Analysis
592 F.2d 1175 · 1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Shelcore, Inc. v. Durham Industries, Inc. (1984), In re King (1986)
2 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 In re Lamberti · In re Wright · In re Simon · In re Hellsund · In re Hellsund
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] reference must be considered not only for what it expressly teaches, but also for what it fairly suggests.”
3 later decisions 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.