384 Pa. Super. 404 - Podrat v. Codman-Shurtleff, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2000
14 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 Webb v. Zern · Commonwealth v. Holzer · Francioni v. Gibsonia Truck Corp. · 20 Cal. App. 3d 1022 - Silverhart v. Mount Zion Hospital · 94 N.J. Super. 228 - Magrine v. Krasnica
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[appellees] could not be liable under a theory of strict liability because [they were] not in the business of selling th[e implant], its use was only incidental to [appellees’] primary function of providing medical services, and the medical services could not have been rendered without the use of this product.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) One who sells any product in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer ... is subject to liability ... if (a) the seller is engaged in the business of selling such a product. ...”
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.