Lemelson v. General Mills, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 1202 · 1992
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 21 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. (1995), Phillips v. AWH Corp. (2005)
25 federal appellate · 21 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. § 112 · 35 U.S.C. § 145
Relies on Jones v. Howard · Connell v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Reed v. United States · Railroad Dynamics, Inc. v. A. Stucki Co. · Fromson v. Advance Offset Plate, Inc.
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“other players in the marketplace are entitled to rely on the record made in the Patent Office in determining the meaning and scope of the patent.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires us to decide for ourselves whether reasonable jurors viewing the evidence as a whole could have found the facts needed to support the verdict in light of the applicable law. If we conclude that no reasonable findings of fact, supported by substantial evidence, could support the verdict that was incorporated into the trial court's judgment, then we must conclude that the trial court erred in not granting the motion for [JMOL].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the first step is to determine the meaning and scope of each claim in suit.'”
2 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.