Grayson v. McGowan’s Empirical Analysis
543 F.2d 79 · 1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2018
3 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 103
Relies on United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Hansberry v. Lee · Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is long established in this circuit that, when the Rule 56 standards are met and the court, without aid of expert opinion, can understand the prior art and patent claims, summary judgment is proper.”
1 later decision 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.