Mathis v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
857 F.2d 749 · 1988
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Read Corporation Ft v. Portec Inc (1992), Beckman Instruments, Inc. v. LKB Produkter AB (1989)
31 federal appellate · 14 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 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 1821 · 28 U.S.C. § 1920 · 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 35 U.S.C. § 102 · 35 U.S.C. § 284 · 35 U.S.C. § 285 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Hall v. Cole · Crawford Fitting Company v. Jt Gibbons Inc Champion International Corporation
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nterest on an attorney fee award ... runs from the date of the judgment establishing the right to the award, not the date of the judgment establishing its quantum.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Citing Mathis’ inequitable conduct before the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), its discovery abuses, its continuation of the suits on the utility patents when aware of prior art that “clearly rendered them invalid,” and its misleading “simulation” at trial of a prior art device, ..., the district court said Mathis’ “course of conduct demonstrates a recklessness with regard to the truth, which justifies an award of attorneys’ fees under the ‘exceptional case’ provision of 35 U.S.C. § 285”.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Interest shall be allowed on any money judgment in a civil case recovered in a district court.... Such interest shall be calculated from the date of the entry of the judgment....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.