Claar’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
35 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Robinson (1996), Gammill v. Jack Williams Chevrolet, Inc. (1998)
35 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Brown v. Allen · Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Lavender v. Kurn
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.
“Coming to a firm conclusion first and then doing research to support it is the antithesis of this method. Certainly, scientists may form initial tentative hypotheses. However, scientists whose conviction about the ultimate conclusion of their research is so firm that they are willing to aver under oath that it is correct prior to performing the necessary validating tests could properly be viewed by the district court as lacking the objectivity that is the hallmark of the scientific method.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Nor does it mean that in FELA cases courts must allow expert testimony that in other contexts would be inadmissible.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“FELA plaintiffs still must demonstrate some causal connection between a defendant's negligence and their injuries.”
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.