Sinclair Refining Co. v. Jenkins Petroleum Process Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that interlocutory judgments are unknown in jury trials and the “answer being general, the case according to common-law practice must be tried as a unit and not broken into parts”
• granting discovery as to the defendant’s post-breach use of the plaintiff’s patent for the purpose of proving lost profits
• allowing evidence of the actual profits gained from defendant’s post-breach use of the plaintiffs device for purposes of proving damages
• referring to later experiences as a “book of wisdom” which can correct uncertainties present at the time of hypothetical negotiation
• referring to later experiences as a “book of wisdom” which can correct uncertainties present at the time of negotiation
• referring to post- infringement factual developments in a patent case as “a book of wisdom that courts may not neglect”

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Cited by

175 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-24· cited 3,550×
• Oklahoma Press Publishing Co. v. Walling
  Supreme Court· 1946-02-11· cited 1,024×
• Lucent Technologies, Inc. v. Gateway, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2009-09-11· cited 489×
• Dayton Power & Light Co. v. Public Utilities Commission
  Supreme Court· 1934-04-30· cited 200×
• Georgia-Pacific Corporation v. U. S. Plywood-Champion Papers Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1971-10-12· cited 197×
• United States v. Safety Car Heating & Lighting Co.
  Supreme Court· 1936-01-06· cited 195×
• Lam, Inc. v. Johns-Manville Corporation and Johns-Manville Sales Corporation
  Federal Circuit· 1983-09-30· cited 186×
• Marvin L. Fishman and Illinois Basketball, Inc. v. Estate of Arthur M. Wirtz, and Illinois Basketball, Inc. v. Estate of Arthur M. Wirtz
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-03-03· cited 186×
• In Re Seagate Technology, LLC
  Federal Circuit· 2007-08-20· cited 147×
• Contemporary Mission, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Famous Music Corporation, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 1977-05-18· cited 147×
• Howard A. Fromson v. Western Litho Plate and Supply Co. And Bemis Company, Inc., Defendants/cross-Appellants
  Federal Circuit· 1988-08-04· cited 141×
• Micro Motion, Incorporated v. Kane Steel Co., Inc., Cross/appellant
  Federal Circuit· 1990-01-24· cited 129×
• United States v. National Lead Co.
  Supreme Court· 1947-11-10· cited 123×
• Miller v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1980-04-16· cited 120×
• Perkins v. Endicott Johnson Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1942-05-06· cited 108×
• Universal Pictures Co. v. Harold Lloyd Corporation
  Ninth Circuit· 1947-05-12· cited 106×
• McCandless v. Furlaud
  Supreme Court· 1935-11-11· cited 104×
• Datascope Corp. v. Smec, Inc., Defendant/cross-Appellant
  Federal Circuit· 1989-09-07· cited 94×
• McNeil v. Jordan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-21· cited 85×
• In Re United States of America, Socialist Workers Party v. The Attorney General
  Second Circuit· 1977-10-11· cited 84×

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ithaca Trust Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1929-04-08· cited 670×
• Standard Oil Co. of NJ v. Southern Pacific Co.
  Supreme Court· 1925-04-20· cited 256×
• Ex Parte FISK
  Supreme Court· 1885-03-02· cited 247×
• Dowagiac Manufacturing Co. v. Minnesota Moline Plow Co.
  Supreme Court· 1915-01-11· cited 214×
• City of New York v. Sage
  Supreme Court· 1915-11-08· cited 133×
• Carpenter v. Winn
  Supreme Court· 1911-05-29· cited 99×
• Cincinnati Siemens-Lungren Gas Illuminating Co. v. Western Siemens-Lungren Co.
  Supreme Court· 1894-03-05· cited 67×
• Industrial General Trust, Ltd. v. . Tod
  New York Court of Appeals· 1905-01-17· cited 67×
• United States Frumentum Co. v. Lauhoff
  Sixth Circuit· 1914-06-30· cited 61×
• United States v. Swift & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1926-03-01· cited 41×
• Luten v. Camp
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1915-03-17· cited 26×
• Colgate v. Compagnie Francaise du Telegraphs de Paris a New York
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York· 1885-01-30· cited 24×
• Pressed Steel Car Co. v. Union Pac. R.
  S.D. New York· 1917-02-20· cited 22×
• Citizens' Savings Bank & Trust Co. v. Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1912-11-08· cited 20×
• State ex rel. Gill v. Board of Supervisors
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1867-01-15· cited 14×
• Harbaugh v. Middlesex Securities Co.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1906-01-19· cited 13×
• Burns v. Lipson
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1923-03-16· cited 10×
• Munger v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
  Second Circuit· 1919-11-12· cited 9×
• Loose v. Bellows Falls Pulp Plaster Co.
  Second Circuit· 1920-03-31· cited 9×
• Claim of Wagner v. Wilson & Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1929-05-28· cited 8×

Other cases named Sinclair Refining Co. v. Jenkins Petroleum Process Co.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Sinclair Refining Co. v. Jenkins Petroleum Process Co.
  First Circuit· 1938-09-27· cited 12×