Lindemann Maschinenfabrik Gmbh v. American Hoist and Derrick Company’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 1452 · 1984
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 43 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 284 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Hybritech Inc. v. Monoclonal Antibodies, Inc. (1986), Chiuminatta Concrete Concepts, Inc. v. Cardinal Industries, Inc. (1998)
27 federal appellate · 43 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. § 112 · 35 U.S.C. § 119 · 35 U.S.C. § 135 · 35 U.S.C. § 282
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · American Hoist Derrick Company v. Sowa & Sons Inc · Radio Corporation of America v. Radio Engineering Laboratories · 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 284 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“something in the prior art as a whole to suggest the desirability, and thus the obviousness, of making the combination”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing in the references alone or together suggests the claimed invention as a solution to the problem”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Dillon · In re Dillon“A finding is clearly erroneous when, although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
4 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.