Bendix Corp. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
600 F.2d 1364 · 1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Hughes Aircraft Company v. United States (1983), Atlas Powder Company v. Ei Du Pont De Nemours & Company (1984)
1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1498 · 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on United States v. Adams · Autogiro Co. of America v. United States · Doyle v. Ohio · Muncie Gear Works, Inc. v. Outboard, Marine & Manufacturing Co. · Bottone v. United States
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled, under the best evidence rule, that in proving the contents of a document, the document itself must be produced unless it is shown to be unavailable through no fault of the proponent. If it is satisfactorily shown to be unavailable, secondary evidence as to its contents may be received.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is not necessary that a claim recite each and every element needed for the practical utilization of the claimed subject matter,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“entirely appropriate, and consistent with § 112, to present claims to only [one] aspect.”
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.