In re Cole’s Empirical Analysis
82 F.2d 405 · 1936
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1976 · most notably Risse Horlein (1967), In re Herr (1967)
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
Relies on In re Sola · In re Williams · In re Sommer · In re Wickers · In re Dodge
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We therefore hold, in harmony with our decisions hereinbefore cited, that in order to warrant the allowance of the claims before us the claims must be inventively different from said interference counts; or, in other words, the specific details or limitations, in the claims before us not found in said interference counts must, when combined with the structure embraced in said counts, involve invention over said counts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Karplus
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.