Knorr v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
671 F.2d 1368 · 1982
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Ethicon, Inc. v. United States Surgical Corp. (1998), Finnigan Corporation v. International Trade Commission (1999)
12 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
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
Relies on Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Heard v. Burton · Torsten Hasselstrom and Malcolm C. Henry v. Blaine C. McKusick · James L. Gianladis v. Gus S. Kass · Myers v. Feigelman
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ufficient circumstantial evidence of an independent nature can satisfy the corroboration rule.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“such a standard is the antithesis of the rule of reason.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the formation in the mind of the inventor[] of a definite and permanent idea of the complete and operative invention, as it is thereafter to be applied in practice.”
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.