Smith v. Pingree’s Empirical Analysis
651 F.2d 1021 · 1981
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2006
10 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on New Jersey Guild of Hearing Aid Dispensers v. Long · Brennan v. Greene's Propane Gas Service, Inc. · Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Ass'n v. Clark
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to a matter included in a federal requirement applicable to a device,”
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.