Novick v. Textron, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1994
3 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 373 So. 2d 498 - Reck v. Stevens · 282 So. 2d 126 - Simon v. Ford Motor Company · 282 So. 2d 590 - Landry v. Adam · 236 So. 2d 616 - Weber v. Fidelity and Casualty Co. of New York
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In cases where a new or relatively new item or machine sustains an accident, the court may use circumstantial evidence tending to prove the defect had existed when the item left the factory if the defect manifested itself soon after the manufacturing process.”
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.