Cavanaugh v. Abbott Laboratories’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 district · 88 state decisions

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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “that the primary method of interpreting the meaning of a statute is through the “plain meaning rule”: “The most elemental rule of statutory construction is that the plain meaning of the statute controls. If confusion or ambiguity does not appear, then the statute is not construed but rather is enforced in accordance with its express terms.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Planned Parenthood of Vermont, Inc. v. City of Burlington · Hearn v. Mark H. Wentworth Home for Chronic Invalids (In re Hearn)

2. “[L]egislative intent is to be ascertained from the act itself, which is presumed to be in accordance with the ordinary meaning of the statutory language,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Dept. of Corrections v. Human Rights Commission · State v. Handy

3. “An action to recover for ionizing radiation injury or injury from other noxious agents medically recognized as having a prolonged latent development shall be commenced within three years after the person suffering the injury has knowledge or ought reasonably to have knowledge of having suffered the injury and of the cause thereof, but in no event more than twenty years from the date of the last occurrence to which the injury is attributed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 189 F. Supp. 2d 183 - Soutiere v. Betzdearborn, Inc.