Carpet Seaming Tape Licensing Corp. v. Best Seam Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
616 F.2d 1133 · 1980
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Costello Publishing Co. v. Rotelle (1981), Digital Equipment Corp. v. Diamond (1981)
18 federal appellate · 4 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 Times-Picayune Pub Co v. United States · Houltin v. United States · Douglas v. Alabama · Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25 · Cole 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In conjunction with this point, it is worthwhile to repeat the admonition found in both case law and treatise that despite the obvious value in expeditious disposition of cases, Rule 41(b) motions should be granted only in clear cases and “in the interest of obtaining a full and complete picture for both the trial and the appellate court it may be advisable to deny the defendant’s motion, put the defendant to its proof, and then decide the case when all the evidence has been adduced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order for nondisclosure to constitute inequitable misconduct there must be something more than negligence ... there must be 'some element of wrongfulness, wilfulness or bad faith that transgresses the basic concept of doing equity.' "). Perhaps the most often quoted description of the level of culpability necessary to support a finding of "fraud on the Patent Office”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“), a subsidiary of Consolidated Foods Corporation, in 1969, disclosed a three-element tape containing a layer of spaghetti-like tracks of hot-melt adhesive which run together upon melting to form a sheet, thus providing the installer with a quick visual index for gauging adequate heating of the adhesive. The Winkler patent, issued to Bruck Industries, Inc. (”
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.