Technitrol, Inc. v. Control Data Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.2d 992 · 1977
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2015
7 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
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Continental Paper Bag Company v. Eastern Paper Bag Company · Topliff v. Topliff · Smith v. Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Co. · Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. v. Walker
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not ordinarily appropriate for the disposition of a patent case,”
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.