Sharp v. Wyatt, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 district · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Vitanza v. Upjohn Co. (2001), Sharp v. Wyatt, Inc. (1994)
6 district · 103 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 Silkwood v. Corporation · Connell v. Colwell · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP · Strada v. Connecticut Newspapers, Inc. · Wadia Enterprises, Inc. v. Hirschfeld
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n determining whether instructions or warnings were required and, if required, whether they were adequate, the trier of fact may consider. . . .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“becomes a question of law only when the mind of a fair and reasonable person could reach only one conclusion. . . . The question should be submitted to the trier of fact if there is room for a reasonable disagreement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] product may be defective because a manufacturer or seller failed to warn of the product's unreasonably dangerous propensities.”
5 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.