Riney v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

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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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The mere fact that Thomas may have so framed certain of the claims of his patent to include an inherent quality of Riney's invention which, perhaps, was not specifically mentioned by Riney in his disclosure, does not, in our opinion, entitle Thomas to the benefit of an invention which was, in fact, first conceived by Riney.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hitzeman v. Rutter

2. “would be at once apparent to any one skilled in the art”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hitzeman v. Rutter