In Re Robert D Jerabek’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2006
5 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 Hildebrand v. Social Security Administration · American Hoist Derrick Company v. Sowa & Sons Inc · Madrid v. Lawyers Title Insurance · Jp Stevens Co Inc v. Lex Tex Ltd Inc · Kearns v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Information is 'material' when there is a substantial likelihood that a reasonable examiner would have considered the information important in deciding whether to allow the application to issue as a patent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]alancing materiality and intent--both properly found to have existed in high measure--[I] must conclude that 'inequitable conduct' occurred through the gross negligence of [Mr. Agata] in failing to disclose to the PTO [or to U.S. counsel] a very significant reference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harita“Sec. 1.56 Duty of disclosure; fraud; striking or rejection of applications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harita
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.