School Asbestos Litigation Pfizer Inc v. Kelly Kaiser Cement Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Castano v. American Tobacco Co. (1996), United States v. Moussaoui (2003)
96 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 372 · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“concerns not only fairness to individual litigants, but, equally important, it concerns `the public's confidence in the judiciary, which may be irreparably harmed if a case is allowed to proceed before a judge who appears to be tainted.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“justice must satisfy the appearance of justice.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We reiterate our preference for an explanation in the petition for why interlocutory appeal is not an adequate alternative. Where interlocutory appeal seems a practical but untried avenue, we will ordinarily deny a petition for mandamus. We decline, however, to dismiss any of the petitions in this case out of hand for failure to address the availability of interlocutory appeal.”
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.