In re Merck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
543 F.3d 150 · 2008
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Merck & Co. v. Reynolds (2010), Merck & Co. v. Reynolds (2010)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 15 U.S.C. § 77M (§ 13 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77V (§ 22 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78U (§ 21d of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 21 U.S.C. § 352 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Basic Inc. v. Levinson · Virginia Bankshares, Inc. v. Sandberg · In re Burlington Coat Factory Securities Litigation · Marine Bank v. Weaver · Lentell v. Merrill Lynch & Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2 years after the discovery of the facts constituting the violation”
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.