Gould v. Control Laser Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
705 F.2d 1340 · 1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Atari, Inc. v. JS & A Group, Inc. (1984), Ethicon, Inc. v. Quigg (1988)
12 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 35 U.S.C. § 305 (§ 1 of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980)
Relies on Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Cobbledick v. United States · Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor Corp. v. Epstein · Hines v. D'Artois · Hershel Hiram McKnight v. C. H. Blanchard, Sheriff of Lubbock County, Texas
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“effectively puts the parties out of the district court,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“is believed by the committee that stay provisions are unnecessary in that such power already resides with the Court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“for such a protracted or indefinite period as to render its issuance an abuse of discretion”
2 later decisions 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.