113 Wash. 2d 645 - Falk v. Keene Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 122 Wash. 2d 299 - Washington State Physicians Insurance Exchange & Ass'n v. Fisons Corp. (1993), 117 Wash. 2d 747 - Ayers v. Johnson & Johnson Baby Products Co. (1992)
3 federal appellate · 80 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 Carnegie v. United States · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Carnegie v. United States · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 86 Wash. 2d 145 - Seattle-First National Bank v. Tabert
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellate court has inherent authority to consider issues which the parties have not raised if doing so is necessary to a proper decision.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“A product is not reasonably safe as designed, if, at the time of manufacture, the likelihood that the product would cause the claimant’s harm or similar harms, and the seriousness of those harms, outweighed the burden on the manufacturer to design a product that would have prevented those harms and the adverse effect that an alternative design that was practical and feasible would have on the usefulness of the product”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“unsafe to an extent beyond that which would be contemplated by the ordinary consumer.”
4 later decisions 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.