National Lead Co. v. Western Lead Products Co.’s Empirical Analysis
324 F.2d 539 · 1963
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1980 · most notably McCullough Tool Co. v. Well Surveys, Inc. (1965), Walker v. General Motors Corp. (1966)
19 federal appellate · 1 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 Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kalo Inoculant Co. · DeForest Radio Co. v. General Electric Co. · Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. v. Radio Corp. of America · First Chrold Corporation v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Davison Chemical Corp. v. Joliet Chemicals, Inc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“anticipation is strictly a technical defense. Unless all of the same elements are found in exactly the same situation and united in the same way to perform the identical function”
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.