Knight’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Terry v. Caputo (2007), King v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Ry. Co. (2009)
2 district · 20 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Kumho Tire Company, Ltd., et al. v. Patrick Carmichael, Etc., et al. · General Electric Co. v. Joiner · Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Havner · Brown v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'General causation is whether a substance is capable of causing a particular injury or condition in the general population, while specific causation is whether a substance caused a particular individual’s injury.’” Knight v. Kirby Inland Marine, Inc., 482 F.3d 347, 351 (5th Cir.2007) (quoting Merrell Dow Pharm., Inc. v. Havner, 953 S.W.2d 706, 714 (Tex.1997)). Louisiana law recognizes this distinction. See, e.g., Zimko v. Am. Cyanamid, 905 So.2d 465, 485-86 (La.App. 4 Cir.2005) (”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we do not suggest that an expert must back his or her opinion with published studies that unequivocally support his or her conclusions.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Reliability is determined by assessing 'whether the reasoning or methodology underlying the testimony is scientifically valid.'”
4 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.