In re Merz’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.2d 599 · 1938
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably In re Williams (1948), Merck & Co. v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. (1958)
14 federal appellate ·
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 General Electric Co. v. De Forest Radio Co. · In re Marden · Farbenfabriken of Elberfeld Co. v. Kuehmsted · In re Ridgway
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * if the process produces an article of such purity that it differs not only in degree but in kind it may be patentable. If it differs in kind, it may have a new utility in which invention may rest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.