Whiting Corp. v. Process Engineering, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
273 F.2d 742 · 1960
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 1985
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Eustace v. Dickey · Idzykowski v. Jordan Marsh Co. · Johnson v. Kanavos · Ireland v. Louis K. Liggett Co. · Jamrog v. H. L. Handy Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . It is not necessary for us to decide where this case falls. An implied warranty of fitness does not extend beyond operating conditions that the seller knew of, or should reasonably have anticipated. . . .””
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.