28 Ohio App. 2d 141 - Burkhard v. Short’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2006
6 federal appellate · 9 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 Larsen v. General Motors Corp. · Evans v. General Motors Corp. · 298 F. Supp. 1064 - Dyson v. General Motors Corporation · Willie C. Gossett v. Chrysler Corporation, a Delaware Corporation · 270 F. Supp. 311 - Shumard v. General Motors Corporation
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A manufacturer of automobiles has no duty to a passenger injured by contact with an obviously unpadded cowl which could have been made ‘safer’ by padding and by recessing the same.” (Syl. 2)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n the Restatement of the Law by the American Law Institute, Torts 2d., Section 398, Chattel Made Under Dangerous Plan or Design, the general rule is stated: `A manufacturer of a chattel made under a plan or design which makes it dangerous for the uses for which it is manufactured is subject to liability to others * * *.' Section 402A, relating to special liability of the seller of a product, applicable to a manufacturer also, states as follows: {¶ 66} `(1) One who sells any product in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer or to his property is subject to liability for physical harm thereby caused to the ultimate user or consumer * * *.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user”
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.