In re Collins’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.2d 1000 · 1935
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1966
4 federal appellate ·
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. § 33
Relies on Lindley v. Shepherd · 36 App. D.C. 435 - In re Mraz
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under the circumstances of this case, cannot preempt the entire field * * * by broadly teaching that useful results may be obtained by mixtures and combinations of a broad general group of materials without specifically naming such materials * * * or in some other manner pointing out his invention as is required by statute * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson v. Bersworth“`include and claim a specific thing not originally described, merely because it comes within the scope of the genus before disclosed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson v. Bersworth
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.