Fernández-Vargas v. Pfizer’s Empirical Analysis
522 F.3d 55 · 2008
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2021
5 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila · Verizon Maryland Inc. v. Public Service Commission of Maryland · Parsons Steel, Inc. v. First Alabama Bank
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“motions for reconsideration are not to be used as a vehicle for a party to undo its own procedural failures [or] allow a party to advance arguments that could and should have been presented to the district court prior to judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court has the inherent power to reconsider its interlocutory orders.”
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.