Lewis v. General Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2022
1 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 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 Agis v. Howard Johnson Co. · Wagenmann v. Adams · Doyle Hp v. Hasbro Inc · K-Mart Corporation v. Oriental Plaza Inc · Carparts Distribution Center, Inc. v. Automotive Wholesaler's Ass'n of New England, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“CERCLA enables,a private party who has investigated or remediated a hazardous waste site “consistent with the national contingency plan” to recover response costs. 42 U.S.C. § 9607 (a)(4)(B). To recover costs under this provision, however, a plaintiff must have actually incurred response costs.... In this case, plaintiff concedes that she has not incurred such costs.... Plaintiffs claim is therefore premature and fails to state a claim for which relief can be granted at this time. Accordingly, Count VIIX will be dismissed without prejudice. If, at a later date, plaintiff does incur response costs, she will be free to reassert this claim.”
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.