Pfizer Inc. v. Lord’s Empirical Analysis
456 F.2d 532 · 1972
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably United States v. International Business Machines Corp. (1980), In re United States (1981)
48 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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. § 1404 · 28 U.S.C. § 1407 · 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651
Relies on United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Tumey v. State of Ohio · Will v. United States · Protective Committee for Independent Stockholders of TMT Trailer Ferry, Inc. v. Anderson · Berger v. United States
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a party to any proceeding in a district court makes and files a timely and sufficient affidavit that the judge before whom the matter is pending has a personal bias or prejudice either against him or in favor of any adverse party, such judge shall proceed no further therein, but another judge shall be assigned to hear such proceeding.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To the extent [that] . . . [the Judge's] remarks can be construed to impugn . . . [the attorney/witness'] veracity, they would seem to be prematurely made during pretrial proceedings and therefore unfair . . .. This type of prejudgment, although unfortunate, cannot serve as a basis for recusing . . . [the Judge]. [117]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cases will continue under . . . [the Judge's] aegis. . . . If petitioners' fears that they will not be afforded a fair trial should prove justified, they are not left without an appropriate remedy.”
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.