Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC’s Empirical Analysis
562 U.S. 223 · 2011
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Sykes v. United States (2011), Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership (2011)
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 4131 · 42 U.S.C. § 247D · 42 U.S.C. § 262 (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009) · 42 U.S.C. § 300A · 42 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 7 U.S.C. § 136V · 8 U.S.C. § 1324A (§ 274a of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Morissette v. United States · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Post-enactment legislative history (a contradiction in terms) is not a legitimate tool of statutory interpretation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death associated with the administration of a vaccine after October 1, 1988, if the injury or death resulted from side effects that were unavoidable even though the vaccine was properly prepared and was accompanied by proper directions and warnings.”
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.