Teleflex, Inc. v. Ficosa North America Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
299 F.3d 1313 · 2002
Citation profile
141 federal appellate · 75 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 514 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Phillips v. AWH Corp. (2005), Innova/Pure Water, Inc. v. Safari Water Filtration Systems, Inc. (2004)
141 federal appellate · 75 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. · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · MARKMAN Et Al. v. WESTVIEW INSTRUMENTS, INC., Et Al. · Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp.
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 514 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“demonstrated an intent to deviate from the ordinary and accustomed meaning of a claim term by redefining the term or by characterizing the invention in the intrinsic record by using words or expressions of manifest exclusion or restriction, representing a clear disavowal of claim scope.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The words used in the claim[] are interpreted in light of the intrinsic evidence of record, including the written description, the drawings, and the prosecution history, if in evidence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he specification 'is always highly relevant to the claim construction analysis. Usually, it is dispositive; it is the single best guide to the meaning of a disputed term.'”
7 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.