Becker v. Mayo Foundation’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Dukowitz v. Hannon Security Services (2012), Palmer v. Illinois Farmers Insurance (2012)
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 22 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 Cort v. Ash · Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington · Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis · 17 Cal. 3d 399 - Landeros v. Flood · Kansas State Bank & Trust Co. v. Specialized Transportation Services, Inc.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the plaintiff belongs to the class for whose benefit the statute was enacted; (2) whether the legislature indicated an intent to create or deny a remedy; and (3) whether implying a remedy would be consistent with the underlying purposes of the legislative enactment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The vast majority of courts ... have held that their reporting statutes do not create a civil cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. C.T. v. Gammon
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.