Poplar v. Bourjois, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Babcock v. Jackson (1963), Goldberg v. Kollsman Instrument Corp. (1963)
19 federal appellate · 46 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 MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Milks v. McIver · Matter of Connelly v. Hunt Furniture Co. · McCahill v. New York Transportation Co. · Baltimore City Passenger Railway Co. v. Kemp
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * liability for negligence [on the part of the manufacturer] turns upon the foreseeability of any harm resulting from the careless conduct, not upon the foreseeability of the exact nature and extent of the injury which does in fact ensue. * * * It would be legally inconsequential that the amputation was less clearly to be foreseen than a simple scratch or pin prick.”
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.