550 U.S. 544 (2007) Cited 268,629 times 366 Legal Analyses
Holding that a complaint's allegations should "contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face' "
Holding that separate federal statutes "establish[ing] distinct rights enforceable by litigants" are not alone sufficient to differentiate prior and later filed actions
Holding that courts interpreting state law should generally follow that state's intermediate appellate courts unless strong evidence suggests they should not
382 U.S. 172 (1965) Cited 878 times 24 Legal Analyses
Holding that there may be a violation of the Sherman Act when a patent is procured by fraud, but recognizing that a patent is an exception to the general rule against monopolies
Holding that allegation that "Exergen, its agents and/or attorneys . . . knew of the material information and deliberately withheld or misrepresented it" without naming "the specific individual associated with the filing or prosecution of the application" was not sufficiently particular to satisfy the "who" element of an inequitable conduct claim
Holding that a "jury instruction on patent misuse" was overbroad, where it "focused primarily on the charge that [the patent holder] was attempting to enforce the patents against goods known not to be infringing"