Bates v. Dow Agrosciences LLC’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
210 federal appellate · 107 district · 203 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 884 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Wyeth v. Levine (2009), Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc. (2008)
210 federal appellate · 107 district · 203 state decisions — followed in 26 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
reviewedDow Agrosciences LLC v. Bates (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1334 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 7 U.S.C. § 136 (Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act of 1972) · 7 U.S.C. § 136A · 7 U.S.C. § 136D · 7 U.S.C. § 136K · 7 U.S.C. § 136V · 7 U.S.C. § 136W
Relies on Hines v. Davidowitz · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · New York State Conference of Blue Cross & Blue Shield Plans v. Travelers Insurance
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 884 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a cause of action on an express warranty asks only that a manufacturer make good on the contractual commitment that it voluntarily undertook by placing that warranty on its product.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]n areas of traditional state regulation, we assume that a federal statute has not supplanted state law unless Congress has made such an intention 'clear and manifest.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“any requirements for labeling or packaging in addition to or different from those required in [FIFRA].”
8 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.