Carpet Seaming Tape Licensing Corp. v. Best Seam Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
694 F.2d 570 · 1982
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2016
7 federal appellate · 2 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 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 285
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Engle v. Isaac · Sakraida v. Ag Pro, Inc. · Weaver v. Graham · Mayview Corp. v. Rodstein
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bad faith or inequitable conduct on the part of the losing party that would make it grossly unjust for the prevailing party to be left with the burden of his litigation expenses.”
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.