Bendix Corp. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Atlas Powder Company v. Ei Du Pont De Nemours & Company (1984), Texas Instruments, Inc. v. United States International Trade Commission (1986)
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1498 · 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on United States v. Adams · Autogiro Co. of America v. United States · Doyle v. Ohio · Muncie Gear Works, Inc. v. Outboard, Marine & Manufacturing Co. · Bottone v. United States
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.
“it is not necessary that a claim recite each and every element needed for the practical utilization of the claimed subject matter,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“entirely appropriate, and consistent with § 112, to present claims to only [one] aspect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“perform its intended function beyond a probability of failure”
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.