Trujillo v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Kirkpatrick v. Introspect Healthcare Corp. (1992), Brooks v. Beech Aircraft Corp. (1995)
6 district · 46 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 32 Ill. 2d 612 - Suvada v. White Motor Co. · Vandermark v. Ford Motor Co. · Scott v. Rizzo · Bartlett v. New Mexico Welding Supply, Inc. · Stang v. Hertz Corporation
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[when] the manufacturer and retailer are held strictly liable in tort and the latter's liability resulted solely from its passive role as the retailer of the product furnished it by the manufacturer, indemni[fication] may lie in favor of the retailer against the manufacturer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The purpose behind the strict products liability doctrine is to allow an injured user or consumer to recover ... without the requirement of proving negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“liability may be imputed to the supplier of the product without the presence of negligence, or fault, on his part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.