Bolm v. Triumph Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Back v. Wickes Corp. (1978), 70 Ill. 2d 51 - Buehler v. Whalen (1978)
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · 8 Cal. 3d 121 - Cronin v. J.B.E. Olson Corp. · Larsen v. General Motors Corp. · Campo v. Scofield
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reject the 'second collision rule' in favor of traditional rules of negligence and warranty,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“unreasonably dangerous (latent) design defects which enhance or aggravate injuries.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The range of reasonable apprehension is at times a question for the court, and at times, if varying inferences are possible, a question for the jury.”
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.