Payton v. Abbott Labs’s Empirical Analysis

1979

Citation profile

cited by 42 later decisions

states following

August 2004

most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably Payton v. Abbott Labs (1982), Sterling v. Velsicol Chemical Corp. (1988)

5 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 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 21 U.S.C. § 301 (Animal Drug Amendments of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331

Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Hansberry v. Lee

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“A 'mass accident' 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 to liability, would be present, affecting the individuals in different ways. In these circumstances an action conducted nominally as a class action would degenerate in practice into multiple lawsuits separately tried....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Pruitt v. Allied Chemical Corp. · In Re Northern District of California, Dalkon Shield Iud Products Liability Litigation.
“whether and when defendants knew or should have known of the dangers of DES exposure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. In Re Northern District of California, Dalkon Shield Iud Products Liability Litigation. · Northern District of California v. A H Robins Company J
“may and probably ought to be maintained as a class action”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. In Re Northern District of California, Dalkon Shield Iud Products Liability Litigation. · Northern District of California v. A H Robins Company J

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.