Products Inc v. E Messick’s Empirical Analysis
700 F.2d 635 · 1983
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. (1986), Jersey Central Power & Light Co. v. Township of Lacey (1985)
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Roe v. Wade · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Benton v. Maryland · Flast v. Cohen · Weinstein v. Bradford
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The case must be viable at all stages of the litigation; it is not sufficient that the controversy was live only at its inception.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] controversy is not capable of repetition if there is only 'a mere physical or theoretical possibility' of recurrence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to decide questions which have become moot by reason of intervening events.”
2 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.