New Idea Farm Equipment Corporation v. Sperry Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
916 F.2d 1561 · 1990
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Advanced Display Systems Inc Bao Gang Wu v. Kent State University Kent Research Corporation Kent Display Systems Inc (2000), Mahurkar v. C.R. Bard, Inc. (1996)
5 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Jones v. Howard · Contemporary Mission, Inc. v. United States · Reed v. United States · Shatterproof Glass Corporation v. Libbey-Owens Ford Company
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person shall be entitled to a patent unless . . . before such person's invention thereof, the invention was made in this country by another inventor who had not abandoned, suppressed, or concealed it.”
3 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.