In re Wertheim’s Empirical Analysis
646 F.2d 527 · 1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2023
5 federal appellate · 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. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 120
Relies on Alexander Milburn Co. v. Davis-Bournonville Co. · Hazeltine Research, Inc. v. Brenner · In re Wertheim · In re Bowers · In re Lund
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constitute[ ] a full, clear, concise and exact description ... of the invention claimed”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“may be said to contain subject matter AB, B representing new matter,” and a fur ther continuation-in-part application”
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.