Vernon F. Minton v. National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. And the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably 133 S. Ct. 1059 - Gunn v. Minton (2013), Gunn v. Minton (2013)
3 district · 2 state decisions
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. · Hormel v. Helvering · Markman v. Westview Instruments, 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An assessment of the validity of a patent claim in light of an alleged sale involves, first, determining whether a sale is truly a "sale” within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. § 102 (b), a question of law based on underlying facts ... "[A] patent is presumed to be valid, 35 U.S.C. § 282 , and this presumption can only be overcome by clear and convincing evidence of facts to the contrary,” ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A whereby clause in a method claim is not given weight when it simply expresses the intended result of a process step positively recited.” (citation omitted)); Endo Pharm. Inc. v. Watson Labs., Inc., No. 13-CV-192, 2014 WL 2859349 , at (E.D. Tex. June 23, 2014) (applying Minton to a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a fully operational computer program implementing and thus embodying the claimed method”
1 later decision 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.