California v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
271 F.3d 1377 · 2001
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Schism v. United States (2002), SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Apotex Corp. (2005)
10 federal appellate ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · United States v. Mitchell · Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations · Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be independently assessed on its own merit.”
3 later decisions 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.