Gardner v. TEC Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
725 F.2d 1338 · 1984
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably SmithKline Diagnostics, Inc. v. Helena Laboratories Corp. (1988), Panduit Corporation v. Dennison Manufacturing Co (1987)
8 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 2111 · 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 103 · 35 U.S.C. § 282 · 35 U.S.C. § 285
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Anderson's-Black Rock, Inc. v. Pavement Salvage Co. · Stratoflex, Inc. v. Aeroquip 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conclusion on obviousness is one of law and subject to full and independent review in this court.”
5 later decisions 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.