In re McKee’s Empirical Analysis
95 F.2d 264 · 1938
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1992
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 Butler · In re Grupe · In re White
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it cannot be otherwise defined, and it is new and inventive, a product may be claimed by the process of producing it. In re Grupe, 48 F.2d 936 , 18 C.C.P.A., Patents, 1262. * * * * * “It is our opinion that claim 4 is not subject to the objection that the product is not described other' than by the process of producing it, for we do not think there is any other way of describing it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Moeller
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.