Oka v. Youssefyeh’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 581 · 1988
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Amgen, Inc. v. Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. (1991), Burroughs Wellcome Co. v. Barr Laboratories, Inc. (1994)
6 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 119
Relies on Coleman v. Dines · Townsend v. Smith · Yamaha International Corp. v. Hoshino Gakki Co. · Marshall B. Alpert v. Harvey L. Slatin · Standard Oil Co. v. Montedison, S.p.A.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conception of a species within a genus may constitute conception of the genus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Scott T Jolley
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.