Bowling v. Pfizer, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably General Motors Corporation Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liability Litigation 94-1064 94-1194 94-1195 94-1198 94-1202 94-1203 94-1207 94-1208 94-1219 (1995), Georgine
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 2283
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc. · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a fair and reasonable settlement may be negotiated where the plaintiffs had access to discovery in other cases and the results of government investigations prior to agreeing to the class settlement”
1 later decision 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.