116 Wis. 2d 166 - Collins v. Eli Lilly & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 12 district · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 220 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement v. Johnson Controls, Inc. (1991), 44 Cal. 3d 1049 - Brown v. Superior Court (1988)
26 federal appellate · 12 district · 124 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 21 U.S.C. § 321 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act)
Relies on 26 Cal. 3d 588 - Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories · 33 Cal. 2d 80 - Summers v. Tice · Dippel v. Sciano · 9 Cal. 3d 51 - Stevens v. Parke, Davis & Co. · 97 Wis. 2d 260 - Wangen v. Ford Motor Co.
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 220 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) One who sells any product in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer or to his property is subject to liability for physical harm thereby caused to the ultimate user or consumer, or to his property, if (a) the seller is engaged in the business of selling such a product, and (b) It is expected to and does reach the user or consumer without substantial change in the condition in which it is sold."”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“deviat[ion] from traditional notions of tort law”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every person is entitled to a certain remedy in the laws for all injuries, or wrongs which he may receive in his person, property, or character; he ought to obtain justice freely, and without being obliged to purchase it, completely and without denial, promptly and without delay, conformably to the laws.”
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.