Mitchell v. Gencorp Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
165 F.3d 778 · 1999
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 41 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Westberry v. Gislaved Gummi AB (1999), Thom v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (2003)
24 federal appellate · 41 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · General Electric Co. v. Joiner · Brown v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Aramburu v. Boeing Co. · Rosen v. Ciba-Geigy Corp.
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiff need not prove that the expert is undisputably correct or that the expert’s theory is “generally accepted” in the scientific community. Instead, the plaintiff must show that the method employed by the expert in reaching the conclusion is scientifically sound and that the opinion is based on facts which sufficiently satisfy Rule 702’s reliability requirements.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he agencies' threshold of proof is reasonably lower than that appropriate in tort law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any step that renders the analysis unreliable ... renders the expert's testimony inadmissible. This is true whether the step completely changes a reliable methodology or merely misapplies that methodology.”
3 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.