United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably In re TMI Litigation (1999), O'Conner v. Commonwealth Edison Co. (1994)
24 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 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 Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the substantive rules of decision in [any public liability action] shall be derived from the law of the State in which the nuclear incident involved occurs.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Strong v. Republic Servs., Inc. · In Re Tmi, Dorothy L. Aldrich Faith Alleman Philip Angeli Michael J. Anoka Ruth v. Anoka Catherine J. Balinosky Regis E. Beasley Louis Borda Betty Marie Boylestein George L. Boylestein Shirlean Burhanan Ruth E. Butler Frank J. Caka Susan H. Chynoweth Daniel M. Chynoweth Catherine Costello John T. Costello Martha A. Costik Richard N. Costik Mary Margaret Earhart Edward Ferguson Marco G. Glad, Jr. Linda I. Glad Barbara Grandon Helen M. Hank Edward John Hertzog Marie H. Hertzog Dianne Hindermyer George Vance Hitz Marjorie B. Hitz Carol C. Hoch Louis A. Hoch Estate of Robert P. Holmes Thelma M. Nagy Barry Obercash Georgeann Pristello James J. Pristello Jamie Lynn Pristello Kenneth R. Snyder Patricia Southard Joseph Stewart Charlotte Evelyn Stewart“A claim growing out of any nuclear incident is compensable under the terms of the Amendments Act or it is not compensable at all.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any state duty would infringe upon pervasive federal regulation in the field of nuclear safety, and thus would conflict with federal law.”
6 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.