Brumbaugh v. CEJJ, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2019
7 federal appellate · 3 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a mandatory link in [the] distributive chain,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the defendant actively ushers a product into the initial market.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the sole conduit by which [defective products] enter the marketplace”
1 later decision 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.