In re DeBaun’s Empirical Analysis
687 F.2d 459 · 1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2019
5 federal appellate · 1 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 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on In re Land · Heard v. Burton · In re Facius · In re Harry · In re Katz
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.
“it was incumbent on appellant to provide satisfactory evidence, in light of the total circumstances of the case, that the reference reflected his own work.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“illustrates ... an apparatus having open-ended honeycomb velocity equalizing sections as originally conceived by [him]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“who invented the subject matter disclosed by [the reference] which was relied on to support the rejection.”
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.