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148 F.3d 943 · 1998

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
May 2016
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Dever v. Hentzen Coatings, Inc. (2004), Guinness Import Company v. Mark Vii Distributors, Inc., Third-Party v. Desnoes & Geddes, Ltd., Third-Party (1998)

9 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions

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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 Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., Solano Cty. · Fertel-Rust v. Milwaukee Police Department · Gacy v. Page

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.

  1. “foreign manufacturer 'pour[ed] its product[ ]' into a regional distributor with the expectation that the distributor will penetrate a discrete, multi-State trade area.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Estate of Moore v. Carroll · Amended May 4, 2015 Dylan Book and Karen Book v. Voma Tire Corporation, Hunter Engineering Company, Iowa Tire, Inc., Holt Sales and Service, Inc., SICE, S.p.A. and SICE Automotive Equipment Societa Italiana Costruzioni Elettromeccaniche S.I.C.E.-S.p.A.
  2. “no duty to warn if the user knows or should know of the potential danger, especially when the user is a professional who should be aware of the characteristics of the product.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Bergfeld v. Unimin Corp.
  3. “These are not `attenuated, random, or fortuitous' contacts with the forum state.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 631 F. Supp. 2d 1168 - Staple Cotton Coop. Assoc. v. Dg and G., Inc.

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.