In Re John a Donohue’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
23 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably PPG Industries, Inc. v. Guardian Industries Corp. (1996), In re Graves (1995)
23 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
Relies on Scalza v. United States · Commonwealth National Bank v. Ashe · South Corporation v. United States · Peter Gabor Kalman v. Kimberly-Clark Corporation · In re LeGrice
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not, however, necessary that an invention disclosed in a publication shall have actually been made in order to satisfy the enablement requirement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“solely as evidence that, more than one year prior to appellant's filing date, a method of preparing the claimed subject matter . . . would have been known by, or would have been obvious to, one of ordinary skill in the art.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to show that the claimed subject matter, as disclosed in Nomura, was in the public's possession.”
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.