Shultz, Dba Walt Shultz Equipment Co., Et Al. v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1992 · most notably Ac Aukerman Company v. Rl Chaides Construction Co (1992), Orthokinetics, Inc. v. Safety Travel Chairs, Inc. (1986)
42 federal appellate · 15 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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 103
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Screws v. United States · Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. · United States v. Seeger
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) Do you find from clear and convincing evidence that the difference between the subject matter of the claim in issue of the patent in suit and the prior art are such that the subject matter thereof as a whole would have been obvious at the time the alleged invention thereof was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.