Kemp v. Pfizer, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2014
2 federal appellate · 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare v. Davenport · Chitwood v. McLemore · Pauley v. Beth-Energy Mines, Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“damages for the loss of financial support and the loss of the society and companionship of the deceased.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“hedonic damages are only available [under Michigan Wrongful Death Act] to living plaintiffs who have been permanently injured such that they cannot enjoy life's pleasures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be narrowly construed so that only those damages explicitly provided for in the act are recoverable.”
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.