Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Conway

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[C]ontingency-fee agreements can be constitutional so long as the Office of Attorney General retains absolute and total control over all critical decision-making.”
• noting, “if the government attorney or prosecutor retains ‘full control over the course of the litigation,’ then the right to an impartial tribunal is not infringed by the use of a contingency fee”
• “Even though there is an explicit clause reserving the AG’s authority over the [ ] litigation, the Court may ask whether the private counsel have ‘ever engaged in any conduct that invaded the sphere of control’ reserved to the AG’s office.”

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Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• International Paper Co. v. Harris County
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2013-07-25· cited 8×
• Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Conway
  E.D. Kentucky· 2013-05-24· cited 6×
• Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Conway
  E.D. Kentucky· 2012-12-19· cited 5×
• American Bankers Management Co. v. Heryford
  E.D. California· 2016-06-03· cited 2×
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2013-07-25

Cites

40 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-12· cited 24,791×
• Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2008-11-12· cited 11,986×
• Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-24· cited 6,491×
• Railroad Comm'n of Tex. v. Pullman Co.
  Supreme Court· 1941-03-03· cited 3,480×
• Tumey v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1927-03-14· cited 2,714×
• Burford v. Sun Oil Co.
  Supreme Court· 1943-06-21· cited 2,418×
• Quackenbush v. Allstate Insurance
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 2,158×
• Concrete Pipe & Products of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-14· cited 1,427×
• County of Allegheny v. Frank Mashuda Co.
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 896×
• Philip D. Overstreet v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-09-30· cited 873×
• Ward v. Village of Monroeville
  Supreme Court· 1972-11-14· cited 834×
• Young v. United States Ex Rel. Vuitton Et Fils S. A.
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-26· cited 815×
• Marshall v. Jerrico, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-28· cited 658×
• Leary v. Daeschner
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-09-20· cited 649×
• Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. City of Thibodaux
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-08· cited 647×
• Certified Restoration Dry Cleaning Network, L.L.C. v. Tenke Corp.
  Sixth Circuit· 2007-12-17· cited 553×
• John C. Bonnell and Nancy L. Bonnell v. Albert Lorenzo, William MacQueen and Gus J. Demas, Mark Cousens
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-03-01· cited 237×
• Connection Distributing Co. v. The Honorable Janet Reno
  Sixth Circuit· 1998-10-22· cited 229×
• Helen Jones v. City of Monroe, Michigan
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-08-21· cited 203×
• Nightclubs, Inc.,plaintiff-Appellant v. City of Paducah
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-02-02· cited 117×

Other cases named Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Conway

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Conway
  E.D. Kentucky· 2013-05-24· cited 6×
• Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Conway
  E.D. Kentucky· 2012-12-19· cited 5×