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← 297 FSUPP2D 171 - Williams v. Purdue Pharma Co.

Williams v. Purdue Pharma Co.’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
July 2015
most recently cited

14 district ·

Relationships

Applies 15 U.S.C. § 2310

Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Papasan v. Allain · Sierra Club v. Morton

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

  1. “Any consumer who suffers any damages as a result of the use or employment by any person of a trade practice in violation of a law of the District of Columbia within the jurisdiction of the Department may bring an action in the Superi- or Court of the District of Columbia to recover or obtain any of the following.”
    1 later decision 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.