Deere Company v. International Harvester Company’s Empirical Analysis
658 F.2d 1137 · 1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where some claims are broad and others narrow, the narrow claim limitations cannot be read into the broad whether to avoid invalidity or to escape infringement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mere application of claim phraseology or a word by word correspondence is not alone enough to establish infringement”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unambiguous showing of extraordinary misconduct.”
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.