Ambrosini v. Labarraque’s Empirical Analysis
101 F.3d 129 · 1996
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 43 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 755 So. 2d 226 - Independent Fire Ins. Co. v. Sunbeam Corp. (2000), Miller v. Bike Athletic Co. (1998)
38 federal appellate · 43 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Frye v. United States · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Dennis v. Dennis
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the theory or technique can be and has been tested; (2) whether the theory or technique has been subjected to peer review and publication; (3) the method's known or potential rate of error; and (4) whether the theory or technique finds general acceptance in the relevant scientific community.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that several possible causes might remain uneliminated ... only goes to the accuracy of the conclusion, not to the soundness of the methodology.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“focus solely on principles and methodology, not on the conclusions that they generate.”
4 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.