Alder v. Bayer Corp., AGFA Div.’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Rothlisberger (2006), 977 So. 2d 543 - Marsh v. Valyou (2007)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 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
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · General Electric Co. v. Joiner · Frye v. United States · H. R. Moch Co. v. Rensselaer Water Co. · Westberry v. Gislaved Gummi AB
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If (a) a negligent act was deemed wrongful because that act increased the chances that a particular type of accident would occur, and (b) a mishap of that very sort did happen, this was enough to support a finding by the trier of fact that the megligent behavior caused the harm. _... [Where such a strong causal link exists, it is up to the negligent party to bring in evidence denying but for cause and suggesting that in the actual case the wrongful conduct had not been a substantial factor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is well established that causation “may be proved by circumstantial evidence,” ... and that “[t]he causal relation between an injury and its later physical effects may be established by the direct opinion of a physician, by his deduction by the process of eliminating causes other than the traumatic agency, or by his opinion based upon a hypothetical question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile often helpful, scientific testimony also has the potential to overawe and confuse, and even to be misused for that purpose. Consequently, jurisprudential history reveals a consistent attempt to ensure the reliability and helpfulness of evidence while allowing a maximum of relevant information to flow to the finder of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haupt v. Heaps
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.