TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC’s Empirical Analysis
581 U.S. 258 · 2017
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 18 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1400 · 28 U.S.C. § 1406
Relies on Fourco Glass Company v. Transmirra Products Corporation · Ex Parte Shaw · Stonite Products Co. v. Melvin Lloyd Co. · In re Hohorst · Brunette MacHine Works, Ltd. v. Kockum Industries, Inc.
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any civil action for patent infringement may be brought in the judicial district where the defendant resides, or where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a domestic corporation 'resides' only in its State of incorporation for purposes of the patent venue statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Accordingly, the only question we must answer is whether Congress changed the meaning of § 1400(b) when it amended § 1391. When Congress intends to effect a change of that kind, it ordinarily provides a relatively clear indication of its intent in the text of the amended provision. See United States v. Madigan, 300 U.S. 500 , 506, 57 S.Ct. 566 , 81 L.Ed. 767 (1937) ("[T]he modification by implication of the settled construction of an earlier and different section is not favoredf.]”); A. Scalia & B. Garner, Reading Law 331 (2012) (“A clear, authoritative judicial holding on the meaning of a particular provision should not be cast in doubt and subjected to challenge whenever a related though not utterly inconsistent provision is adopted in the same statute or even in an affiliated statute[.]”).”
2 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.