In re Yates’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 1054 · 1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2014
3 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. § 103
Relies on Application of Basil Vivian Aller, Richard Norman Lacey, Reginald Harold Hall · In re Antonie · In re Aller · In re Goodwin · In re Soli
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“squeez[e] new factual situations into preestablished pigeonholes.”
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.