Garthwait v. Burgio’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 24 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Temple v. Wean United, Inc. (1977), Gionfriddo v. Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. (1984)
9 federal appellate · 24 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc. · Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. · 32 Ill. 2d 612 - Suvada v. White Motor Co. · Goldberg v. Kollsman Instrument Corp. · Hamon v. Digliani
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant was engaged in the business of selling the product; (2) the product was in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the consumer or user; (3) the defect caused the injury for which compensation was sought; (4) the defect existed at the time of the sale; and (5) the product was expected to and did reach the consumer without substantial change in condition.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where the liability is fundamentally founded on tort rather than contract there appears no sound reason why the manufacturer should escape liability simply because the injured user, a party in the normal chain of distribution, was not in contractual privity with it by purchase and sale.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sohn v. Bernstein
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.