Ilhardt v. A.O. Smith Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2015
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. · Blackie v. Barrack · In re American Medical Systems, 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The “test” that each state requires in determining whether a product is defective. (b) The time at which the jury must judge the defectiveness of the product. (c) Whether state law forbids or requires the jury to be instructed on the definition of “unreasonably dangerous.” (d) Whether it is plaintiffs’ or defendants’ burden to prove defectiveness. (e) Whether the individual states even recognize a cause of action in strict products liability.”
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.