Diamond Shamrock Chemicals Company "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation’s Empirical Analysis
725 F.2d 858 · 1984
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably In re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation MDL No. 381 (1987), In the Matter of Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Incorporated (1995)
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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.
Relationships
Relies on General Electric Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers · 102 S. Ct. 969 - United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Austin v. Tennessee · United States v. Dooling · In re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it seems likely that some common issues, which stem from the unique fact that the alleged damage was caused by a product sold by private manufacturers under contract to the government for use in a war, can be disposed of in a single trial. The resolution of some of these issues in defendants’ favor may end the litigation 'entirely. Moreover, since these issues may involve extensive documentary and (testimonial evidence, Chief Judge Wein-stein found that obviating a retrial in countless individual cases will lead to substantial economies in the use of judicial and private resources. 725 F.2d at 860-61 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[r]eview of the many issues raised by the class certification will be available [on direct appeal] when the ramifications of each aspect of the ruling will be evident.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“resulting in injuries to numerous persons is ordinarily not appropriate for a class action because of the likelihood that significant questions, not only of damages but of liability and defenses of liability, would be present, affecting the individuals in different ways.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.