Augustine Medical, Inc. v. Gaymar Industries, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
181 F.3d 1291 · 1999
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 18 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Omega Engineering, Inc. v. Raytek Corp. (2003), Festo Corporation v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co Ltd Smc Corporation Smc Pneumatics Inc (2000)
13 federal appellate · 18 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · MARKMAN Et Al. v. WESTVIEW INSTRUMENTS, INC., Et Al. · Warner-Jenkinson Company Inc v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co · Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. · Cybor Corporation v. Fas Technologies, Inc., and Fastar Ltd., Defendants-Cross
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A CIP application contains subject matter from a prior application and may also contain additional matter not disclosed in the prior application. . . . Different claims of such an application may therefore receive different effective filing dates.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he prosecution history of a parent application may limit the scope of a later application using the same claim term.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Different claims of [a CIP] application may therefore receive different effective filing dates.... Subject matter that arises for the first time in [a] CIP application does not receive the benefit of the filing date of the parent application.”
2 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.