Spencer v. Madsen’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.2d 820 · 1944
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Foley v. the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Co. (1949), Hanna v. Fletcher (1956)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Johnson v. Cadillac Motor Car Co. · Smith v. Peerless Glass Co. · Windram Manufacturing Co. v. Boston Blacking Co. · Genesee County Patrons Fire Relief Ass'n v. L. Sonneborn Sons, 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * `If the nature of a thing is such that it is reasonably certain to place life and limb in peril when negligently made, it is then a thing of danger. Its nature gives warning of the consequences to be expected. If to the element of danger there is added knowledge that the thing will be used by persons other than the purchaser, and used without new tests, then, irrespective of contract, the manufacturer of this thing of danger is under a duty to make it carefully.' * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.