Weaver v. Chrysler Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Cox v. Zurn Pex, Inc. (2011), Briehl
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Conley v. Gibson · Foman v. Davis · Cortec Industries, Inc. v. Sum Holding L.P. · Mills v. Polar Molecular Corp. · Acito v. IMCERA Group, 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where . . . a product performs satisfactorily and never exhibits the alleged defect, no cause of action lies.”
2 later decisions 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.