Clair v. Kastar, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.2d 644 · 1945
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1988 · most notably Watkins v. Northwestern Ohio Tractor Pullers Ass'n (1980), Jamesbury Corp. v. Litton Industrial Products, Inc. (1988)
10 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 Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Clair · Clair v. Kastar, Inc. · Clair v. Kastar, 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(w)hile a patentee is getting his patent sustained (in another suit) he is not bound to assert his claims to their fullest scope by suing every conceivable infringer.”
4 later decisions 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.