Metaullics Systems Co. v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.3d 938 · 1996
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 26 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Dillon v. United States (2010), Cybor Corporation v. Fas Technologies, Inc., and Fastar Ltd., Defendants-Cross (1998)
34 federal appellate · 26 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 MARKMAN Et Al. v. WESTVIEW INSTRUMENTS, INC., Et Al. · Miller v. Fenton · Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. · Illinois Tool Works, Inc. v. Grip-Pak, Inc.
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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the interpretation of a so-called patent claim ... is a matter of law reserved entirely for the court, or subject to a Seventh Amendment guarantee that a jury will determine the meaning of any disputed term of art about which expert testimony is offered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'falls somewhere between a pristine legal standard and a simple historical fact.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.