265 So. 2d 270 - Leathem v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1990
4 federal appellate · 13 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 193 So. 2d 807 - Meche v. Farmers Drier & Storage Company · Samaha v. Southern Rambler Sales, Inc. · Arnold v. United States Rubber Company · 153 So. 2d 533 - Smith v. New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad Co. · 156 So. 2d 271 - Glisson v. Colonial Buick, 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The ... rule requires the manufacturer to exercise reasonable care in the design of its products which are of such nature that, if not carefully made, can cause foreseeable injury to persons using the products for purposes which the manufacturer may reasonably expect they will be employed, and also to those whom the manufacturer may reasonably expect to be endangered by such probable use ... "By its very nature, the criteria of reasonable care, applicable in instances of this nature, must be flexible inasmuch as it depends on the peculiar facts and circumstances of each case. Even though design may not be perfect or foolproof, it is still not defective provided reasonable care is taken in its adoption ..."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A manufacturer of a product which involves a risk of injury to the user is liable to any person, whether the purchaser or a third person, who without fault on his part, sustains an injury caused by a defect in the design, composition, or manufacture of the article, if the injury might reasonably have been anticipated. However, the plaintiff claiming injury has the burden of proving that the product was defective, i. e., unreasonably dangerous to normal use, and that the plaintiff's injuries were caused by reason of the defect."”
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.