Hebert v. Lisle Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
99 F.3d 1109 · 1996
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 44 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Lawrence B. Lockwood v. American Airlines, Inc. (1997), Exergen Corp. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2009)
24 federal appellate · 44 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · MARKMAN Et Al. v. WESTVIEW INSTRUMENTS, INC., Et Al. · Doerr v. Doerr · Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. · Hughey v. United States
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Intent to deceive can not be inferred solely from the fact that information was not disclosed; there must be a factual basis for a finding of deceptive intent.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here are a variety of ways in which the district court may choose to handle the issue of inequitable conduct during a jury trial.... Some courts have reserved the entire issue of inequitable conduct unto themselves; some have submitted special interrogatories to the jury on the facts of materiality and intent; and some have instructed the jury to find and weigh the facts of materiality and intent and decide the ultimate question of inequitable conduct, as in the case at bar.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When an ultimate question of law or fact is decided by the jury, on review it is assumed that the jury resolved the evidentiary facts as appropriate to support the verdict.”
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.