Henry v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.2d 28 · 1975
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 33 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Veazey v. Doremus (1986), Gantes v. Kason Corp. (1996)
25 federal appellate · 33 district · 17 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. § 1292
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Hanson v. Denckla · Lauritzen v. Larsen · Babcock v. Jackson
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court determines first the governmental policies evidenced by the laws of each related jurisdiction and second the factual contacts between the parties and each related jurisdiction. A state is deemed interested only where application of its laws to the facts will foster that state’s policy.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“need go no further now than to say that when the cause of action arises in another state, the parties are all present in and amenable to the jurisdiction of that state, New Jersey has no substantial interest in the matter, the substantive law of the foreign state is to be applied....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... New Jersey would not presume to tell a drug seller that its activity in Canada should be judged by the rules of New Jersey or for that matter by the United States Food and Drug Law”
2 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.