Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Kevin Concannon Commissioner Maine Department of Human Services Maine Attorney General’s Empirical Analysis
249 F.3d 66 · 2001
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 41 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Walsh, Acting Commissioner, Maine Department of Human Services (2003), Freedom Holdings Inc. v. Spitzer (2004)
36 federal appellate · 41 district · 3 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 United States v. Salerno · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Craig v. Boren · Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc.
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where coordinated state and federal efforts exist within a complementary administrative framework, and in the pursuit of common purposes, the case for federal preemption becomes a less persuasive one.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] facial challenge to a legislative Act is, of course, the most difficult challenge to mount successfully, since the challenger must establish that no set of circumstances exists under which the Act would be valid.” U.S. v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739, 745 , 107 S.Ct. 2095, 2100 , 95 L.Ed.2d 697 (1987). While this”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“regulates evenhandedly and has only incidental effects on interstate commerce”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.