Response of Carolina, Inc., Florida Computer Response, Inc., Datatron Corporation, Response of Colorado, Inc. v. Leasco Response, Inc., Leasco Response, Inc. v. John Wright’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 1307 · 1976
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013 · most notably Jefferson Parish Hospital District No. 2 v. Hyde (1984), Access Now, Inc. v. Southwest Airlines Co. (2004)
72 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 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 Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Hormel v. Helvering
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear understanding (of) ... what proof will be required to pass from one phase to the next”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[S]uch a violation must be limited to those instances where the technological factor tying the hardware to the software has been designed for the purpose of tying the products, rather than to achieve some technologically beneficial result. Any other conclusion would enmesh the courts in a technical inquiry into the justifiability of product innovations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“where the interest of substantial justice is at stake”
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.