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Underwager v. Salter’s Empirical Analysis

22 F.3d 730 · 1994

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
3
states following
August 2023
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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
  2. “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
  3. “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.