Rexnord Corporation v. The Laitram Corporation Intralox Inc’s Empirical Analysis
274 F.3d 1336 · 2001
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 41 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 228 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Phillips v. AWH Corp. (2005), Innova/Pure Water, Inc. v. Safari Water Filtration Systems, Inc. (2004)
66 federal appellate · 41 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. · 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 228 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n applicant is not required to describe in the specification every conceivable and possible future embodiment of his invention.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] claim term should be construed consistently with its appearance in other places in the same claim or in other claims of the same patent.”). See also Phonometrics, Inc. v. Northern Telecom Inc., 133 F.3d 1459, 1465 (Fed.Cir. 1998) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]fter examining the written description and the drawings, the same confirmatory measure must be taken with the prosecution history, since statements made during the prosecution of a patent may affect the scope of the invention.”
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.