177 Ill. 2d 21 - Trans States Airlines v. Pratt & Whitney Canada, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 226 Wis. 2d 235 - Wausau Tile, Inc. v. County Concrete Corp. (1999), 225 Wis. 2d 305 - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Ford Motor Co. (1999)
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 46 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. · 63 Cal. 2d 9 - Seely v. White Motor Co. · 91 Ill. 2d 69 - Moorman Manufacturing Co. v. National Tank Co. · 32 Ill. 2d 612 - Suvada v. White Motor Co. · 131 Ill. 2d 428 - Board of Education v. A, C and S, 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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“damages for inadequate value, costs of repair and replacement of the defective product, or consequent loss of profits--without any claim of personal injury or damage to other property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“" The purpose of strict liability in tort is to place the loss caused by defective products on those who create the risks and reap the profits by placing such products in the stream of commerce. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. v. Williams Machine & Tool Co. , 62 Ill. 2d 77 [82, 338 N.E.2d 857 ] (1975). The rationale underlying this liability is three fold: (1) the public interest in human life and safety demands broad protection against the sale of defective products; (2) the manufacturer solicits and invites the use of his products by representing that they are safe and suitable for use; and (3) the losses caused by defectively dangerous products should be borne by those who have created the risks and reaped the profits by placing the products into commerce." (Emphasis added.) Trans States Airlines , 177 Ill. 2d at 37 -38 , 224 Ill.Dec. 484 , 682 N.E.2d 45 (citing Suvada v. White Motor Co. , 32 Ill. 2d 612 , 619, 210 N.E.2d 182 (1965), and 14 Ill. Jur. Personal Injury and Torts § 33:1 (1994) ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Significantly, AC. & S is an asbestos case. The court there, prior to rejecting the sudden and dangerous occurrence requirement, noted that asbestos damages do not easily fit within the frame work delineating tort and contract.... We do not read the proffered language in AC. & S as a wholesale rejection of the “sudden and calamitous requirement” for other property cases. Clear from the language is that the court was attempting to confine its reasoning to the particular facts of the case.”
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.