Diebold, Inc. v. Record Files, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate ·

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(1) In reaching my determination I have given full recognition to the rule that there is an evidential presumption of validity which resides in the granting of a patent and that one who challenges validity by infringement has a heavy burden to overthrow that presumption and to establish invalidity.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lempco Products, Inc. v. Hill