Caputo v. Pfizer, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
267 F.3d 181 · 2001
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Vess v. Ciba-Geigy Corp. USA (2003), Frommert v. Conkright (2006)
19 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 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 Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Reiter v. Sonotone Corp. · Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Novotny · Bailey Assignee v. Glover et al. · Weinstock v. Columbia University
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) six years after (A) the date of the last action which constituted a part of the breach or violation, or (B) in the case of an omission the latest date on which the fiduciary could have cured the breach or violation, or (2) three years after the earliest date oh which the plaintiff had actual knowledge of the breach or violation....”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'specify the time, place, speaker, and content of the alleged misrepresentations, ... how the misrepresentations were fraudulent' and 'those events which give rise to a strong inference that the defendant had an intent to defraud, knowledge of the falsity, or a reckless disregard for the truth.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“could include necessary opinions of experts, knowledge of a transaction's harmful consequences, or even actual harm.”
6 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.