Boerner v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
260 F.3d 837 · 2001
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Craighead v. Lee (2005), Boerner v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. (2005)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · Salve Regina College v. Russell · Rabushka United States v. Crane Company · O'BRIEN v. Muskin Corp.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dangerous to an extent beyond that which would be contemplated by the ordinary consumer,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In reaching this conclusion, we have considered the district court's conclusion that [the decedent] would not have used a safer alternative product because she disliked filtered cigarettes, and find it to be beside the point. Under Arkansas law, contributory negligence is no bar to recovery under a strict liability theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a supplier of a product is strictly liable for an injury caused by the product if (1) the product is in a defective condition that rendered it unreasonably dangerous, and (2) the defective condition was a proximate cause of the injury.”
1 later decision 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.