Traharne v. Wayne/Scott Fetzer Co.’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 2021
1 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Brown v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Jacobs v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections · Ferebee v. Chevron Chemical Co.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Dauberb gatekeeping function of trial courts was not meant to force product liability plaintiffs to obtain as experts inventors or designers of new and improved products in order to succeed in products liability litigation. Product design is achieved over many years of research and testing by corporate Research and Development Departments and only after the expenditure of huge sums of money and manpower. Such testing expenditures would be cost prohibitive for the vast majority of plaintiffs. To require physical testing of an expert’s opinion before the expert is permitted to testify would mean the elimination of product liability suits by ordinary non-corporate citizens. No ordinary citizen could afford such prohibitive up front litigation costs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.