Funk v. Stryker Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
631 F.3d 777 · 2011
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 360K (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act)
Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Bowles v. Russell · Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd. · Maurice Taylor v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division · Norris v. Hearst Trust
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the district court took appropriate judicial notice of publicly-available documents and transcripts produced by the [Food and Drug Administration], which were matters of public record directly relevant to the issue at hand.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not specify the manufacturing defect; nor d[id] it specify a causal connection between the failure of the specific manufacturing process and the specific defect in the process that caused the personal injury. Nor d[id] the complaint tell us how the manufacturing process failed, or how it deviated from the FDA approved manufacturing process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'clearly proper in deciding a 12(b)(6) motion [that a court may] take judicial notice of matters of public record.'”
3 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.