160 Ind. App. 310 - Link v. Sun Oil Company’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Francioni v. Gibsonia Truck Corp. (1977), 171 Ind. App. 14 - Petroski v. Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (1976)
1 district · 87 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 147 Ind. App. 106 - Perfection Paint & Color Co. v. Konduris · 158 Ind. App. 338 - Richmond Gas Corporation v. Reeves · 150 Ind. App. 113 - Senst v. Bradley · 159 Ind. App. 324 - Goff v. Graham · 153 Ind. App. 304 - Dyer Construction Co., Inc. v. Ellas Const. Co., 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne who sells any product in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer . . . is subject to liability,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In determining whether a negative judgment is contrary to law, this court, as an appellate tribunal, neither weighs the evidence nor resolves questions of credibility of witnesses, but considers only the evidence most favorable to the appellees, together with all reasonable inferences deducible therefrom. It is only where the evidence leads to but one conclusion and the trial court has reached an opposite conclusion that the decision of the trial court will be disturbed as being contrary to law. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the product need not be actually sold if it is injected into the `stream of commerce' by other means.”
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.