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222 F.3d 788 · 2000
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Emerson v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co. (2007), US Airways, Inc. v. O'Donnell (2010)
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 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 Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · English v. General Electric Co. · Geier v. American Honda Motor Co. · Freightliner Corp. v. Myrick
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct in a field that Congress intended the Federal Government to occupy exclusively.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... the laws of the United States ... shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“only a floor, i.e., a minimum safety standard,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.