Syntex Ophthalmics, Inc. v. Tsuetaki’s Empirical Analysis
701 F.2d 677 · 1983
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Aoude v. Mobil Oil Corp. (1988), American Can Company v. Mansukhani M (1984)
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
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 Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co. · United States v. District Court · Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission · Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to justify the district court’s exercise of discretion in issuing the preliminary injunction, the plaintiff must show: “(1) it has at least a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits, (2) it has no adequate remedy at law and will otherwise be irreparably harmed, (3) the threatened injury to it outweighs the threatened harm the preliminary injunction may cause the defendants, and (4) the granting of the preliminary injunction will not disserve the public interest.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] trade secret can exist in a combination of characteristics and components, each of which, by itself, is in the public domain, but the unified process, design and operation of which, in unique combination, affords a competitive advantage and is a protectable secret.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Here the holder of the trade secret did not make an election to obtain a patent, but instead it was appellants who had misappropriated the trade secrets and secured the patent. In 1936 we held in Shellmar Products Co. v. Allen-Qualley Co., 87 F.2d 104 (7th Cir.1936), cert. denied, 301 U.S. 695 , 57 S.Ct. 923 , 81 L.Ed. 1350 (1937), that a wrongdoer who has made an unlawful disclosure of another’s trade secrets cannot assert that publication to escape the protection of trade secret law. We believe that principle to be equally vital today. To hold otherwise in the instant case would be to permit appellants to profit from their own wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.