Porter v. Whitehall Laboratories, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.3d 607 · 1993
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably 755 So. 2d 226 - Independent Fire Ins. Co. v. Sunbeam Corp. (2000), Cortes-Irizarry v. Corporacin Insular De Seguros
52 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Frye v. United States
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the suggested scientific testimony must `fit' the issue to which the expert is testifying.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]aced with a proffer of expert scientific testimony ... [he] must determine at the outset ... whether the expert is proposing to testify to (1) scientific knowledge that (2) will assist the trier of fact to understand or determine a fact in issue.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise. (b) Expert scientific testimony is admissible only if the court is satisfied that the scientific principles upon which the expert testimony rests are reliable.”
3 later decisions 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.