Sauquoit Fibers Co. v. Leesona Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
498 F.2d 271 · 1974
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Water Technologies Corp. v. Calco, Ltd. (1988), 397 F. Supp. 1146 - Duplan Corporation v. Deering Milliken, Inc. (1974)
34 federal appellate · 11 district · 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 United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Elizabeth v. Pavement Co. · Smith Griggs Manuf'G Co v. Sprague
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Numerous cases, however, have explicitly extended the experimental period past the point of reduction to practice.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“35 U.S.C. § 102 (b) provides that A person shall be entitled to a patent unless . (b) the invention was . in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of application for patent in the United States .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“issues involving state of mind and intent are not well suited to disposition by summary judgment, since much depends upon the credibility of witnesses testifying as to their own states of mind, and assessing credibility is a delicate matter best left to the fact finder.”
3 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.