Greening Nursery Co. v. J & R Tool & Manufacturing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
376 F.2d 738 · 1967
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 1987 · most notably Flour City Architectural Metals v. Alpana Aluminum Products, Inc. (1972), American Seating Company v. National Seating Company (1978)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Julia Hotchkiss Executrix of John Hotchkiss Deceased John Davenport and John Quincy v. Miles Greenwood · Skee-Trainer, Inc. v. Garelick Mfg. Co. · Long v. Arkansas Foundry 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test for determining anticipation is whether the prior art discloses all the elements of the claimed combinations, or their mechanical equivalents, functioning in substantially the same way, to produce the same result.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Graham v. John Deere Co. of Kansas City, 383 U.S. 1 , 86 S.Ct. 684, 15 L.Ed.2d 545 (1966). However,”
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.