Beatrice Foods Co. v. New England Printing & Lithographing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 1576 · 1991
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Read Corporation Ft v. Portec Inc (1992), Rite-Hite Corporation Hmh Hoj Rb We v. Kelley Company Inc (1995)
10 federal appellate · 6 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. § 284
Relies on Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · General Motors Corp. v. Devex Corp. · Lassiter v. Department of Social Services · In re Disbarment of Kleindienst · Underwater Devices Incorporated v. Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc., Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc. v. Lester A. Haug, Don W. Schmid and Herman Gunther
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An award of interest from the time that the royalty payments would have been received merely serves to make the patent owner whole, since his damages consist not only of the value of the royalty payments but also of the forgone use of the money between the time of infringement and the date of the judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[E]nhanced damages may be awarded only as a penalty for an infringer's increased culpability, namely willful infringement or bad faith. Damages cannot be enhanced to award the patentee additional compensation to rectify what the district court views as an inadequacy in the actual damages awarded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“enhancement of damages must be premised on willful infringement or bad faith.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.