Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
148 federal appellate · 78 district · 665 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,018 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. (1986), Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute (1991)
148 federal appellate · 78 district · 665 state decisions — followed in 50 states
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. · Endicott Johnson Corp. v. Perkins · United States v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. · The Ansaldo San Giorgio I v. Rheinstrom Bros. · Jacob E. Decker & Sons, Inc. v. Capps
Cited together with Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc. · Santor v. a & M KARAGHEUSIAN, INC. · Erie Co v. Tompkins · 63 Cal. 2d 9 - Seely v. White Motor Co. · MacPherson v. . Buick Motor 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 1,018 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n instinctively felt sense of justice cries out against such a sharp bargain.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“submitted * * * for determination solely on the issues of implied warranty of merchantability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to promptly perform and fulfill all terms and conditions of the owner service policy,”
2 later decisions 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.