786 F. Supp. 607 - Windham v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Mark Eck Sandra Keck Travis Eck Megan Eck v. Parke Davis & Company Warner-Lambert Company the Rugby Group Inc and Rugby Laboratories Inc (2001), 448 Pa. Super. 425 - Demmler v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. (1996)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Fontenot v. Upjohn Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a further warning would not have altered [the physician's] conduct, then any failure to warn would not be the proximate cause of [the plaintiff's] injuries.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when it can be shown that a trial would serve no useful purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crosley-El v. Berge“weighed the risk of the drug against the benefit of the drug”
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.