Underwager v. Salter’s Empirical Analysis
22 F.3d 730 · 1994
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Tierney v. Vahle (2002), HipSaver, Inc. v. Kiel (2013)
10 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1653
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · St. Amant v. Thompson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Underwager's approach has failed to carry the medical profession, but it has endeared him to defense lawyers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“scientific controversies must be settled by the methods of science rather than by the methods of litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“mark the path toward superior understanding of the world around us.”
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.