Lemelson v. Kellogg Co.’s Empirical Analysis
440 F.2d 986 · 1971
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1999
13 federal appellate · 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 Continental Ore Company v. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation · Compco Corp. v. Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. · United States v. Forness · Keys v. United States · Alexander v. Nash-Kelvinator 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The requirement embodied in that Rule serves many masters. It aids ‘the appellate court by affording it a clear understanding of the ground or basis of the decision of the trial court,’ Barron & Holtzoff, Federal Practice and Procedure, § 1121 (Wright Revision 1961), see Fuchstadt v. United States, 434 F.2d 367 (2 Cir. 1970); it makes definite what was decided by the case, Wright, Federal Courts (1963) § 96; and it serves to evoke ‘care on the part of the trial judge in ascertaining the facts.’ ””
4 later decisions 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.