Alfieri v. Cabot Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2018
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Chesapeake Ohio Railway Company v. Addie Kelly · Maize v. Atlantic Refining Co. · Ebbert v. Philadelphia Electric Co. · MacDougall v. Penna. Power & Light Co. · Genesee County Patrons Fire Relief Ass'n v. L. Sonneborn Sons, 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“holding that the retail seller was not liable "even though it might have discovered the dangerous character ... by a test”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“because [t]here was no obligation upon it to make such test”
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.