Mallinckrodt, Inc. v. Medipart, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
976 F.2d 700 · 1992
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Cr Bard Inc v. M3 Systems Inc (1998), Braun Medical Inc v. Abbott Laboratories Np (1997)
26 federal appellate · 13 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
Relies on Continental Inc v. Gte Sylvania Incorporated · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Morrison v. Olson · Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Thornburg
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The concept of patent misuse arose to restrain practices that did not in themselves violate any law, but that draw anticompetitive strength from the patent right, and thus were deemed to be contrary to public policy.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that has a good faith belief that its patents are being infringed violates no protected right when it so notifies infringers”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“found to be reasonably within the patent grant, i.e., that it relates to subject matter within the scope of the patent claims.”
6 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.