In re Sherwood’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 809 · 1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably Diamond v. Diehr (1981), Hybritech Inc. v. Monoclonal Antibodies, Inc. (1986)
3 federal appellate · 7 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. § 100 · 35 U.S.C. § 101 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on Gottschalk v. Benson · Parker v. Flook · Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. v. Radio Corp. of America · In re Gay · In re Freeman
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only evidence of concealment (accidental or intentional) is to be considered,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“) and the information that is desired (the”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“is to restrain inventors from applying for patents while at the same time concealing from the public preferred embodiments of their inventions which they have in fact conceived.”
2 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.