Piche v. Nugent’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · General Electric Co. v. Joiner · United States v. Mooney · Plumley v. Southern Container, 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“nothing in either Daubert or the Federal Rules of Evidence requires a district court to admit opinion evidence which is connected to existing data only by the ipse dixit of the expert. A court may conclude that there is simply too great an analytical gap between the data and the opinion proffered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'A plaintiff’s duty to mitigate damages arises after he or she has suffered an injury or loss....’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKinley v. Casson
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.