In Re Rita S. Jones, Michael T. Chirchirillo and Johnny L. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2025
1 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on In re Disbarment of Adelman · Lockheed Shipbuilding Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno · In re Fine · In Re Diane M Dillon
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the case before us there must be adequate support in the prior art for the [prior art] ester/[claimed] thioester change in structure, in order to complete the PTO's prima facie case and shift the burden of going forward to the applicant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“regardless [ ] how broad, a disclosure of a chemical genus renders obvious any species that happens to fall within it”
1 later decision 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.