West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
526 federal appellate · 235 district · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,755 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), Farrar v. Hobby (1992)
526 federal appellate · 235 district · 135 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWest Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 2060 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 2618 (§ 19 of the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976) · 15 U.S.C. § 2805 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 57A (Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 16 U.S.C. § 1540 (§ 11 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) · 16 U.S.C. § 2632 · 16 U.S.C. § 470W
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Caminetti v. United States
Cited together with Hensley v. Eckerhart · Crawford Fitting Company v. Jt Gibbons Inc Champion International Corporation · Blum v. Stenson · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Missouri v. Jenkins Ex Rel. Agyei
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 1,755 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do not permit it to be expanded or contracted by the statements of individual legislators or committees during the course of the enactment process,”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exemplification and copies of papers necessarily obtained for use in the case”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the prevailing party ... a reasonable attorney's fee as part of costs.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.