Flaherty v. Helfont’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Adams v. Buffalo Forge Co. (1982), Mosby v. Kimball (1931)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In case of any such substance whose dangerous qualities are latent and not obvious, manufacturers, vendors, or distributors who intentionally or negligently fail to inform persons dealing with them of such qualities, or with greater reason misrepresent the same, are, notwithstanding want of privity, liable for injuries caused thereby to persons whose exposure to the danger could reasonably be contemplated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[h]igh explosives, poisons and impure foods are examples”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hurd v. Hurd
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.