Synergetics, Inc. v. Hurst’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.3d 949 · 2007
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Streck, Inc. v. Research & Diagnostic Systems, Inc. (2012), Hallmark Cards, Inc. v. Murley (2013)
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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. § 636
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Kumho Tire Company, Ltd., et al. v. Patrick Carmichael, Etc., et al. · CMC Heartland Partners v. Union Pacific Railroad · Allen v. Oklahoma · National Organization of Veterans' Advocates, Inc. v. Principi
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An expert's opinion should be excluded only if that opinion is so fundamentally unsupported that it can offer no assistance to the jury.”
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.