Back v. Wickes Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 85 district · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 255 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Simon v. Solomon (1982), Correia v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1983)
58 federal appellate · 85 district · 101 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 20 Cal. 3d 413 - Barker v. Lull Engineering Co. · Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. · Heavner v. Uniroyal, Inc. · Cintrone v. Hertz Truck Leasing & Rental Service · Jacob E. Decker & Sons, Inc. v. Capps
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 255 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the gravity of the danger posed by the challenged design, the likelihood that such danger would occur, the mechanical feasibility of a safer alternative design, the financial cost of an improved design, and the adverse consequences to the product and to the consumer that would result from an alternative design.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“fit for the ordinary purposes for which such goods are used.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(t)he Skil Corporation has a duty under the law to anticipate the environment in which its product will be used, and it must design against the reasonably foreseeable risks attending the product's use in that setting.”
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.