Lemelson v. Wang Laboratories, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2019
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 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 35 U.S.C. § 154
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · United States v. Turkette · Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company · McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail Transportation 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extorted millions of dollars in settlement monies through a pattern of litigation involving infringement claims based on fraudulently obtained patents”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Langan v. Smith“any act or threat involving... extortion... which is chargeable under State law and punishable by imprisonment for more than one year”
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.