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← 26 Conn. Super. Ct. 142 - Mitchell v. Miller

26 Conn. Super. Ct. 142 - Mitchell v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

1965

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
15
states following
November 1999
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 1999 · most notably Elmore v. American Motors Corp. (1969), West v. Caterpillar Tractor Company, Inc. (1976)

9 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 15 states

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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 Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc. · Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. · 32 Ill. 2d 612 - Suvada v. White Motor Co. · Santor v. a & M KARAGHEUSIAN, INC. · Schipper v. Levitt & 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"The search for correct principles to delineate manufacturers' responsibility to consumers has found expression in the doctrine of tort and strict liability. * * * * * * "The public policy which protects the user and consumer should also protect the innocent bystander. * * * There seems to be no sound public policy to bar a trial upon the issues raised in the complaint." 214 A.2d at 697, 699 .”
    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.