Wright v. Carter Products, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
244 F.2d 53 · 1957
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently October 1994 · most notably Borel v. Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. (1973), Reyes v. Wyeth Laboratories (1974)
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from New York Southern District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Palmer v. Hoffman · Central Vermont Railway Company v. Mary Theresa White L · Cities Service Oil Co. v. Dunlap
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would seem that a manufacturer cannot be required to alter a formula that has proven safe for use by the overwhelming majority of its users, but the standard of care owed by that manufacturer to its ultimate consumers may include a duty to warn those few persons who it knows cannot apply its product without serious injury.””
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.