Union Pacific Resources Co. v. Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
236 F.3d 684 · 2001
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 18 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Metabolite Laboratories, Inc. v. Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings (2004), Exxon Research and Engineering Company v. United States (2001)
17 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 Cybor Corporation v. Fas Technologies, Inc., and Fastar Ltd., Defendants-Cross · Kingsdown Medical Consultants, Ltd. v. Hollister Inc. · Molins PLC v. Textron, Inc. · Moleculon Research Corporation v. Cbs Inc · Personalized Media Communications, LLC v. International Trade Commission
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“focuses on whether those skilled in the art would understand the scope of the claim when the claim is read in light of the rest of the specification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“balancing the levels of materiality and intent, /. . . a greater showing of one factor allow[s] a lesser showing of the other.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a method for locating a drill bit in a horizontal borehole relative to the surrounding strata.”
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.