Jones v. VEFO Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
609 F.2d 409 · 1979
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · Juidice v. Vail · Pennington-Winter Construction Co. v. Durkin · Walker v. General Motors 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless all of the same elements are found in exactly the same situation and united in the same way to perform the identical function in a single prior art reference there is no anticipation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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