In Re Chiropractic Antitrust Litigation’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate ·

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We observe that suitable alternatives to Section 1407 transfer are available in order to minimize the possibility of duplicative discovery. For example, the parties may request from the appropriate district courts that discovery completed in any action and relevant to one or more of the other actions be made applicable to those actions; or the parties could seek to agree upon a stipulation that any discovery relevant to more than one action may be used in all those actions. See also In re The Upjohn Company Antibiotic Cleocin Products Liability Litigation, 81 F.R.D. 482 (E.D.Mich.1979); Manual For Complex Litigation, Parts I and II, § 3.11 (rev. ed. 1977).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dr. Chester A. Wilk v. American Medical Association, the State of New York, Intervening

2. “much of the relevant discovery (in the New York action) has already occurred in the Illinois action”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wilk v. American Medical Ass'n