Walton v. Sherwin-Williams Co.’s Empirical Analysis
191 F.2d 277 · 1951
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2018
12 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 Chapman Chemical Co. v. Taylor · United States Smelting Co. v. Parry · Cropper v. Titanium Pigment Co. · Fredendall v. Abraham & Straus, Inc. · Meeks v. Graysonia, Nashville & Ashdown Railroad
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.
““. . . the adequacy of a set of warnings or directions is not a scientific matter. Whether or not a given warning is adequate depends upon the language used and the impression that it is calculated to make upon the mind of an average user of the product.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The mere fact that the witnesses here were experts in their fields of botany and plant pathology does not qualify them to speak with authority on the effectiveness of a label in conveying a warning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“invad[ing] the province of the jury on a question which the jury was entirely capable of answering without the benefit of ... expert opinion.”
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.