In re Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.2d 904 · 1936
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1963
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. § 6
Relies on In re Wagenhorst · Southgate v. Greene · Kishi v. Humble Oil & Refining Co. · In re Schneider · In re Thomas
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.
““In the cas,e at bar appellants have contented themselves in their reasons of appeal with the mere statement that the Board of Appeals erred in affirming the final rejection of the appealed claims, and in failing to allow them. “Appellants having failed to set forth specific reasons why the decision of the Board of Appeals should be either modified or reversed, we have no authority * * * to revise the Board’s decision.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Dichter
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.