Langer v. Kaufman’s Empirical Analysis
465 F.2d 915 · 1972
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Invitrogen Corporation v. Clontech Laboratories Inc (2005), Estee Lauder Inc. v. L'Oreal, S.A. (1997)
7 federal appellate · 4 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 Precision Instrument Mfg Co v. Automotive Maintenance Machinery Co · Frederick H. Norton v. Lawrence E. Curtiss · Binstead v. Littmann · Heard v. Burton · George B. Spero v. Howard J. Ringold and George Rosenkranz
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“necessary and only reasonable construction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no evidence of any contemporaneous interpretation or evaluation of the patterns”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.