Alternative System Concepts, Inc. v. Synopsys, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
374 F.3d 23 · 2004
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 79 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 207 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Rodi v. Southern New England School of Law (2004), Haley v. City of Boston (2011)
70 federal appellate · 79 district · 23 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Pierce v. Underwood
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 207 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]econd, the responsible party must have succeeded in persuading a court to accept its prior position,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ourts typically invoke judicial estoppel when a litigant is playing fast and loose with the courts,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he circumstances to be stated with particularity under Rule 9(b) generally consist of 'the who, what, where, and when of the allegedly [misleading] representation.'”
6 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.