Chrysler Corp. v. Batten’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Allison v. McGhan Medical Corp. (1999), Gantes v. Kason Corp. (1996)
12 federal appellate · 63 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 Alterman Foods, Inc. v. Ligon · Banks v. ICI Americas, Inc. · 171 Ga. App. 331 - Ford Motor Co. v. Stubblefield · MacK Trucks, Inc. v. Conkle · 163 Ga. App. 698 - Greenway v. Peabody International 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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he limitation of paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of this Code section regarding bringing an action within ten years from the date of the first sale for use or consumption of personal property shall also apply to the commencement of an action claiming negligence of a manufacturer as the basis of liability, except an action seeking to recover from a manufacturer for injuries or damages ... arising out of conduct which manifests a willful, reckless, or wanton disregard for life or property.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]othing contained in this subsection shall relieve a manufacturer from the duty to warn of a danger arising from the use of a product once that danger becomes known to the manufacturer,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A negligent failure to warn claim may arise from a manufacturer's post-sale knowledge acquired months, years, or even decades after the date of the first sale of the product.”
3 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.