William S. Cloud, and v. Standard Packaging Corporation, And’s Empirical Analysis
376 F.2d 384 · 1967
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Berkley & Co. (1980), Jones v. Hardy (1984)
28 federal appellate ·
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 Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Electric Storage Battery Co. v. Shimadzu · Hoeltke v. C. M. Kemp Mfg. Co. · Armour & Co. v. Wilson & Co. · Smith v. Dravo 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“e.g., disclosure to a prospective purchaser to enable him to appraise the value of a secret....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A mere experimental use is not the public use defined by the Act, but a single use for profit, not purposely hidden, is such. The ordinary use of a machine or the practice of a process in a factory in the usual course of producing articles for commercial purposes is a public use.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Except for purely experimental use, ‘Public use may properly be defined as any utilization of the invention by one other than the inventor where the user is under no limitation, restriction or obligation of secrecy to the inventor.’ ””
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.