Bernhardt v. Richardson-Merrell’s Empirical Analysis
892 F.2d 440 · 1990
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Welch v. Celotex Corp. (1992), Adams v. Travelers Indemnity Co. (2006)
16 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Viterbo v. Dow Chemical Co. · Brock v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Farina v. Mission Investment Trust · Sapp v. Renfroe
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“order a continuance to permit affidavits to be taken or depositions to be taken or discovery to be had,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot for reasons stated present by affidavit facts necessary to justify the party's opposition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“showing that there is a genuine issue for trial.”
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.