In re Gelnovatch’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.2d 32 · 1979
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1999
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. § 101 · 35 U.S.C. § 144
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · United States v. Adams · Gottschalk v. Benson · Parker v. Flook · Deepsouth Packing Co. v. Laitram Corp.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Very simply, our holding today is that a claim for an improved method of calculation, even when tied to a specific end use, is un-patentable subject matter under § 101.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Bradley“It is said that this decision precludes a patent for any program servicing a computer. We do not so hold.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In re Bradley
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.