In Re John R Beattie’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably WMS Gaming Inc. v. International Game Technology (1999), Amazoncom Inc v. Barnesandnoblecom Inc Barnesandnoblecom Llc
8 federal appellate · 10 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 Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Wrenn v. Weinberger
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he question is whether there is something in the prior art as a whole to suggest the desirability, and thus the obviousness, of making the combination,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]s long as some motivation or suggestion to combine the references is provided by the prior art taken as a whole, the law does not require that the references be combined for the reasons contemplated by the inventor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be sufficient to overcome a prima facie case of obviousness.”
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.