Sperry v. Bauermeister, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
4 F.3d 596 · 1993
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Zaza v. Marquess and Nell, Inc. (1996), Temporomandibular Joint Implants Products Liability Litigation Temporomandibular Joint Implant Recipients v. Ei Du Pont De Nemours and Company
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Salve Regina College v. Russell · Cole v. Bone · Blevins v. Cushman Motors · Nesselrode v. Executive Beechcraft, Inc. · Koonce v. Quaker Safety Products & Manufacturing Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“component parts are not responsible for accidents that result when the parts are integrated into a larger system that the component part supplier did not design or build.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It was Spicecraft’s decision to install an electrical system that contained no warning light and which included a manual override of the interlock system. Moreover, Bauermeister did not design, supply, or install the auger that amputated Sperry’s fingers. Sperry alleges that Bauermeister was responsible for the overall design of the system. Bauermeister did not design the milling system, however, having supplied only component parts to Spieecraft.... Bauermeister’s sale of a single component of a series of systems did not make it responsible for the overall design of the ... Mill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e must decide whether the record, when viewed in the light most favorable to [Walk], the nonmoving party, shows that there is no genuine issue of material fact”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 98-2554
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.