W. R. Grace & Co. v. Western U. S. Industries, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 1214 · 1979
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Berkley & Co. (1980), Handgards, Inc. v. Ethicon, Inc. (1984)
17 federal appellate · 3 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 Precision Instrument Mfg Co v. Automotive Maintenance Machinery Co · Walker Process Equipment, Inc. v. Food MacHinery & Chemical Corp. · Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. · Keystone Driller Co. v. General Excavator Co. · Standard Oil Co of California 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reveals a calculated recklessness about the truth”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he possession and assertion of patent rights are issues of great moment to the public. A patent by its very nature is affected with a public interest.... The far-reaching social and economic consequences of a patent, therefore, give the public a paramount interest in seeing that patent monopolies spring from backgrounds free from fraud or other inequitable conduct and that such monopolies are kept within their legitimate scope.”
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.