Mull v. Ford Motor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
368 F.2d 713 · 1966
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably Simblest v. Maynard (1970), Denneny v. Siegel (1969)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Palmer v. Hoffman · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. · Bernhardt v. Polygraphic Co. of America, Inc. · Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“The Eighth Circuit has more recently left the question open however, see, e. g., Jiffy Markets [, Inc.] v. Vogel, 340 F.2d 495 , 498 (1965); Hanson v. Ford Motor Co., 278 F.2d 586 (1960), without mention of the Curry case, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Neither the precise hazard nor the exact consequences [of the third party's negligent act] need be foreseen.”
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.