Medcom Holding Company v. Baxter Travenol Laboratories Inc’s Empirical Analysis
106 F.3d 1388 · 1997
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Naeem v. McKesson Drug Co. (2006), In re Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether ("MTBE") Products Liability Litigation (2013)
29 federal appellate · 2 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 United States v. Olano · Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc. · Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd. · Pledger v. Medlock · McI Communications Corporation McI v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the existence of damages is established, 'the evidence need only tend to show a basis for the computation of damages with a fair degree of probability.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“falls within the flexible range of conclusions which can be reasonably supported by facts because the assessment of damages is primarily an issue of fact for jury determination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to Illinois law for the substantive standard of what evidence would satisfy proof of damages.”
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.