Wyeth Laboratories Division of American Home Products Corporation v. United States District Court for District of Kansas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. “With these broad concepts in mind, we have attempted to determine whether the district court has the authority to create a facility for dissemination of information to private parties through the use of public facilities, public employees, and public funds. We could find no such jurisdiction, and neither the respondent nor the interested parties have supplied us with any. We are thus constrained to hold in establishing the DTP Library, the district court acted without authority.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Grundberg v. Upjohn Co.

2. “[W]hile the heart of judicial authority is article III of the Constitution, the lifeblood of the district court is the contents of the Judicial Code.... If an act can be performed by a district court, it is because it was permitted and not because it was not prohibited by Congress. Federal courts operate only in the presence rather than the absence of statutory authority.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. Phillips