Weil v. Fritz’s Empirical Analysis
601 F.2d 551 · 1979
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1993
3 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. § 112
Relies on Padilla-Martinez v. United States · In re Gay · In re Wertheim · In re Marzocchi · In re Smith
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) “shall” set forth an enabling disclosure so that any person skilled in the art can practice the invention, and (2) “shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.””
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.