708 F. Supp. 615 - Multi-Tech, Inc. v. Components, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2015
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
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 112 · 35 U.S.C. § 285
Relies on De Leon v. United States · Central Soya Company Inc v. Geo a Hormel & Company · Reactive Metals and Alloys Corporation v. Esm Incorporated · S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. v. Carter-Wallace, Inc. · Builders Concrete, Inc. v. Bremerton Concrete Products Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a successful defendant in a patent infringement suit seeking to recover fees must demonstrate that there is evidence of actual wrongful intent or of gross negligence on the part of the plaintiff in bringing the action.”
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.