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437 F.2d 99 · 1971

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
July 1976
most recently cited

13 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Anderson's-Black Rock, Inc. v. Pavement Salvage Co. · Hycon Manufacturing Company v. H. Koch & Sons, a Partnership Consisting of M. P. Koch, W. L. Koch, H. M. Koch and R. Koch Abel · Inglett & Co. v. Everglades Fertilizer Co. · Stamicarbon, N. V. v. Escambia Chemical 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[s]ummary judgment is the rare exception, see Ronel Corporation v. Anchor Lock of Florida, Inc., 5 Cir. 1963, 325 F.2d 889 , and not the rule in patent infringement cases.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Thus obviousness is a question of law determined against the factual background of the state of the prior art and the claimed improvement on it.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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