Seafarers Welfare Plan v. Philip Morris’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 10 district ·

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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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[U]nlike the various suits now pending brought by state attorneys general or other governmental entities, the [plaintiffs] are not the entities which actually paid the increased medical costs from their own assets. Rather, ... "plaintiffs are merely handling the payments with money provided by others, and have no genuine stake in the matter."”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Health Care Service Corp. v. Mylan Laboratories, Inc. · 295 F. Supp. 2d 30 - In Re Lorazepam & Clorazepate Antitrust Litigation

2. “Complaint* ¶ 96; see also Complaint ¶ 56. This factual scenario is different from that which was before the Seafarers court: [U]nlike the various suits now pending brought by state attorneys general or other governmental entities, the [plaintiffs] are not the entities which actually paid the increased medical costs from their own assets. Rather, ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 295 F. Supp. 2d 30 - In Re Lorazepam & Clorazepate Antitrust Litigation

3. “[I]t would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to determine whether, and the extent to which, any of the Funds' participants had other health problems which may have exacerbated the costs of health care for that smoker”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 83 F. Supp. 2d 125 - In Re tobacco/governmental Health Care Costs