United States Gypsum Co. v. National Gypsum Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 24 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably McCullough Tool Co. v. Well Surveys, Inc. (1965), Hertz Corporation v. City of New York O (1993)
66 federal appellate · 24 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 35 U.S.C. § 271
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · United States v. Swift & Co. · United States v. Oregon State Medical Society · Morton Salt Co. v. G. S. Suppiger Co.
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is now * * * familiar law that the courts will not aid a patent owner who has misused his patents to recover any of their emoluments accruing during the period of misuse or thereafter until the effects of such misuse have been dissipated, or `purged' as the conventional saying goes. (citing cases.) The rule is an extension of the equitable doctrine of `unclean hands' to the patent field.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is an extension of the equitable doctrine of 'unclean hands' to the patent field.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Jurisdiction is retained for the purpose of enabling any of the parties to this judgment to apply to the Court at any time for such further orders and directions as may be necessary or appropriate for the construction or carrying out of this judgment or for the modification or termination of any of the provisions thereof, and for the purpose of the enforcement of compliance therewith and the punishment of violations thereof.””
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.