Gart v. Logitech, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
254 F.3d 1334 · 2001
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 18 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Innova/Pure Water, Inc. v. Safari Water Filtration Systems, Inc. (2004), CCS Fitness, Inc. v. Brunswick Corp. (2002)
31 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · MARKMAN Et Al. v. WESTVIEW INSTRUMENTS, INC., Et Al. · Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. · Vitronics Corporation v. Conceptronic 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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when no reasonable jury could find that every limitation recited in the properly construed claim either is or is not found in the accused device.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“drawings [depicting the preferred embodiment] are not meant to represent `the' invention or to limit the scope of coverage defined by the words used in the claims themselves.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“affirmative communication [to the alleged infringer] of a specific charge of infringement by a specific accused product or device.”
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.