Brooks v. Beech Aircraft Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 13 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Apodaca v. AAA Gas Co. (2003), Smith v. Ingersoll-Rand Co. (2000)
4 federal appellate · 13 district · 42 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 Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc. · 20 Cal. 3d 413 - Barker v. Lull Engineering Co. · Vandermark v. Ford Motor Co. · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Behymer · Azzarello v. Black Bros. Co., Inc.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of illness from dangerous products such as asbestos should be placed upon those who profit from its production and, more generally, upon society at large, which reaps the benefits of the various products our economy manufactures. That burden should not be imposed exclusively on the innocent victim.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) the usefulness and desirability of the product; (2) the availability of other and safer products to meet the same need; (3) the likelihood of injury and its probable seriousness, i.e., “risk”; (4) the obviousness of the danger; (5) common knowledge and normal public expectation of the danger (particularly for established products); (6) the avoidability of injury by care in use of the product (including the effect of instructions or warnings); and (7) the ability to eliminate the danger without seriously impairing the usefulness of the product or making it unduly expensive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[1] placing the cost of injuries caused by defective products on the manufacturer who is in a better position to pass the true product cost on to all distributors, retailers, and consumers of the product; [2] relieving the injured plaintiff of the onerous burden of establishing the manufacturer’s negligence; [3] providing full chain of supply protection; and, [4] in the interest of fairness, providing relief against the manufacturer who — while perhaps innocent of negligence — cast the defective product into the stream of commerce and profited thereby.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.