Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. United States Plywood Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
258 F.2d 124 · 1958
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 22 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 318 F. Supp. 1116 - Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. United States Plywood Corp. (1970), Shatterproof Glass Corporation v. Libbey-Owens Ford Company (1985)
59 federal appellate · 22 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 Eibel Process Co. v. Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. · United Carbon Co. v. Binney & Smith Co. · Berra v. United States · Pennsylvania Railroad v. Rychlik · General Protective Committee v. Securities & Exchange 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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the claims, read in the light of the specifications, reasonably apprise those skilled in the art both of the utilization and scope of the invention, and if the language is as precise as the subject matter permits, the courts can demand no more.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]hose skilled in the art must be able to understand and apply the teachings of the invention ... enterprise must not be discouraged by the creation of an area of uncertainty as to the scope of the invention. On the other hand, the policy of the patent statute ... would be defeated if protection were to be accorded only to those patents which were capable of precise definition. The judicial function requires a balancing of these competing considerations in the individual case.” ( 258 F.2d at 136 ).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Expertness and experience in passing upon patents lies primarily in the Patent Office and these important factors are only partially offset by the greater concentration and the additional relevant evidence which can be brought to bear in any particular patent litigation in the courts.”
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.