Broadview Chemical Corp. v. Loctite Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
406 F.2d 538 · 1969
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1994
9 federal appellate · 2 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 Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Lane v. Wilson · I. T. S. Rubber Co. v. Essex Rubber Co. · Bewal, Inc., a Corporation of Kansas and Benjamine C. Edwards, Jr. v. Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, a Corporation of Delaware
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But it is old and obvious learning that a patent may not be avoided by making unimportant and insubstantial changes and substitutions in the patent which, though adding nothing, are then put forth as answers to infringement charges.”
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.