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In Re Jack R Wands Vincent R Zurawski Jr and Hubert Jp Schoemaker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

148
cited by 148 later decisions
June 2025
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 65 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Genentech, Inc. v. Novo Nordisk, A/S (1997), Johns Hopkins University v. CellPro, Inc. (1998)

1 federal appellate · 65 district ·

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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 Vandygriff v. Phillips · Bullock v. United States · Wrenn v. McFadden · Holmes v. United States · Texas State Commission for the Blind 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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) the quantity of experimentation necessary, (2) the amount of direction or guidance presented, (3) the presence or absence of working examples, (4) the nature of the invention, (5) the state of the prior art, (6) the relative skill of those in the art, (7) the predictability or unpredictability of the art, and (8) the breadth of the claims.”
    45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “a challenger must show by clear and convincing evidence that a [POSA] would not be able to practice the claimed invention without undue experimentation.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “a specification need not disclose what is well known in the art,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.