Ethyl Corp. v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Davis (2002), Stewart Title Guaranty Co. v. American Abstract & Title Co. (2005)
4 federal appellate · 47 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 Wallace v. Broyles · Larson MacHine, Inc. v. Wallace · Keck v. American Employment Agency, Inc. · Union Pacific Railroad v. Sharp · City of Caddo Valley v. George
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o constitute negligence, an act must be one from which a reasonably careful person would foresee such an appreciable risk of harm to others as to cause him not to do the act, or to do it in a more careful manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there is no duty to guard against merely possible, as opposed to likely or probable, harm”
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.